Chocolate…MMM! But A Chocolate Moose for Dinner? That
would not be Easy As Pie!
Our
third grade class use idioms and figures of speech each
day. One of our class jobs is to find an idiom either from
our Idiom Dictionary or from a book marked internet site.
We read them often in our reading. We even use them in our
own writing. English Language Learners often find idioms
and figures of speech difficult to comprehend without
repeated use because they really don’t make sense.
A
Chocolate Moose for Dinner (by Fred Gwynne) and Easy as Pie
(by Marcia Folsom (my College English professor) and Michael
Folsom) made us laugh and say “OHHHHH – now I get it!” We
created a list that is ongoing, of other figures of speech
we find in our reading. This chart is also a reference for
us when we write.
Can
you add to our list?
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Button your lips
Ant in your pants
Apple of your eye
Green thumb
Hold your horses
Baker’s dozen
Backseat driver
Black sheep of the family
Bite your tongue
Break a leg
Bugging me
Bull in a china shop
Butterflies in my stomach
Lend an ear
Like a bump on a log
Made my mouth water
Name is mud
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Cat got your tongue?
Clean as a whistle
Cool it
Cool as a cucumber
Dead as a doornail
Chill out
Cool it
Down in the dumps
Easy as pie
Piece of cake
Elbow grease
Fly the coop
Forty winks
Full of beans
Go bananas
Hit the road
Kick the bucket
Under the weather |
Once in a blue moon
Out of the woods
Over the hill
Penny for your thoughts
Pay through your nose
Playing by ear
Put your foot down
Raining cats and dogs
Rat race
Roll with the punches
Saw logs
Shake a leg
Sick as a dog
Snug as a bug in the rug
Spill the beans
Tickled pink
Till the cows come home
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We had
fun drawing pictures of idioms in our art center. We also
created a computer generated illustration using Claris Works
for Kids.
