Don't you think the cover for author Pat Street's book is the cats meow? I love it! All the animal sayings and illustrations inside are sweeping me off my feet! Pat Street focused on similes, metaphors, idioms and proverbs in the book. If I were talking instead of blogging there would be a frog in my throat because I would be shouting praises of the book to the four corners of the earth! Yes indeed, I'm not mincing words when I say that this book is top drawer!
I will be e-mailing Pat Street today and hopefully in the near future we might hear from her. Wouldn't that be mar-vel-lous! Simply marvelous!
Ms. Meeler and I were on top of the world last week as we watched you creating idiom sentences on your blogs. Here's a sampling of some of your sentences:
- Marcos was on pins and needles when we took that test.
- Mrs Henning said Mike was on thin ice.
- For me math is a shot in the arm.
- Adriana has to chill out.
- I'm good at social studies, but in math I got Achilles heel.
- I've gone bananas over weblogging
- Webbloging is all about playing with words.
- Ashley and Adrieana see eye to eye on tests.
- Weblogging is when the pen is mightier than the sword.
- When Juan found out that Jhonathan had spilled the beans, Jhonathan was a dead duck.
- Juan told Jhonathan to add a little elbow grease to weblogging.
- My grandmother is no spring chicken.
- Alejandra's heart is in the right place because she has good intentions.
- Ashley, when you weblogg, always remember that you are dealing with mind over matter.
- Erika let the cat out of the bag when she told our biggest secret.
Wow! I'd say you guys were developing the gift of gab! The best part of the day was watching you laughing, swapping idioms with each other, giggling, thinking and learning. Yep, it was a red letter day in the computer lab! I am really looking forward to reading the idiom stories you will be creating and blogging this week!