Metaphors & Poems

April has definitely proven that it is the rainy month for central Illinois. It's kind of hard to see because it was so dark outside and light in the room, but the top of the picture has paint strips taped up in a rainbow-like form and then down below are raindrops that have poems on them.

For the metaphors lesson I went to Lowes and got 23 different colored paint strips for free! Then each kid chose a color that they wanted and they had to come up with three (because there's three boxes on each paint strip) metaphors that describe that color.

For the rain drop poems, we read "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More" by Karen Beaumont and illustrated by David Cantrow. We talked about the rhythm that the book has and how the words rhyme in the story. Then we made a list of rhyming words that are associated with rain such as fella & umbrella, rain & strain & drain, etc. Afterwards, each kid came up with their own poem (they had to have four lines total) following the same rhythm as the story; however, there's started off saying "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More, No More"