Similes

We started working on similes and metaphors this week. For the similes lesson I had students first understand what a simile is by giving a definition of it and having them brainstorm phrases using "like" or "as" that could be similes. After they understood what a simile was, I put up an anchor chart with the title "The Pop Rocks Exploded..." on the board. I handed out a small amount of pop rocks to each student and at the same time they all put them in their mouths. After the rocks had stopped popping, we came up with similes that described how the similes exploded in their mouths. Here are some of the things they came up with:

After the whole-group instruction  I broke up the class up into small groups and each group got their own poster with a saying on it. They had to finish the saying using a simile to explain the subject on their poster. They came up with some pretty good expressions!