Use Your Words

I like words. I like markers. I like filling up classroom walls with ongoing brainstorms and lists and examples. The Multiple Meaning Word Wall was a classic. Every morning, during this portion of the curriculum, I'd stand on a table (which was enough to get the students to wonder if I'd fall to my death, thus paying close attention to me) and have students call out multiple meaning words. We'd fill up the chart paper little by little. Sooner or later we'd start to lose steam and just admire our weeks' work. We'd tear down the paper when it came time to move on to homophones, or figurative language or synonyms.

Apparently the Multiple Meaning word activities are still charging on at Southeast. Ms. Heinzen reports: I think you might like this one. When doing an observation I walked into a classroom and they were working on the multiple meaning of "handle" and the sentence said, "Chris Brown man-handled Rihanna." I love Middle Schoolers. 

Me too.

Poetry Tree featuring figurative language leaves, 06-07