free winter figurative language - book units teacher 1 © gay miller free winter figurative language...
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Instructions:
o Print the snowman on the next page. o Students will select idioms which contains
winter related words such as ice, cold, or snow. o On the middle snowball, students write their
selected idioms. Under the idioms, students write the meanings of the idioms.
o On the bottom snowball, students will draw literal pictures of the idioms. These are meant
to be funny.
break into a cold sweat to suddenly become very scared about something to be snowed in trapped somewhere because of too much snow
white as the driven snow [of someone] extremely pale, as if frightened
snow bunny someone learning to ski snow job a deceptive story that tries to hide the truth
snowed under overworked; exceptionally busy break into a cold sweat to suddenly become very scared about something
give someone the cold shoulder to behave in an unfriendly way to someone to get cold feet to suddenly become too scared to do something
on thin ice at risk of annoying someone in the cold light of day to think about something clearly and often feel shame
afterwards
put something on ice to delay something
to pour cold water on something to try and stop an idea to break the ice to make people feel less nervous in a social situation
make your blood run cold to make you very scared about something to go cold turkey to stop a habit all in at once, not slowly bit-by-bit
pure as the driven snow to be completely innocent leave someone out in the cold to not involve someone in something, like a group
to run hot and cold to be unable to make up one’ s mind the snowball effect when something small keeps growing in importance
out cold unconscious or sound asleep
stop cold to halt someone immediately break into a cold sweat to suddenly become very scared about something
to be snowed in trapped somewhere because of too much snow white as the driven snow [of someone] extremely pale, as if frightened
snow job a deceptive story that tries to hide the truth snowed under overworked; exceptionally busy
Activity 1 ~ Winter Idiom Illustration
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Jack Frost by Helen Leah Reed
Oh! it is little Margery who has a garden-bed, Wherein grow purple pansies and geraniums white and red, With feverfew and dahlias, and delicate pink phlox, And grandmother's fair favorites, old-fashioned hollyhocks. One night we feared Jack Frost might come to blight the tender flowers - We almost felt his cruel breath in the early evening hours; So Margery took coverings and spread them, thick and warm, To shield the flowers, as blankets wrap a sleeping baby's form. Then in the morning, when we looked across the dewy grass, And saw the traces Jack Frost leaves where he is wont to pass - For each spreading tree and slender bush had felt his chill caress, And some had drooped, and some had blushed in crimson loveliness - We hastened to the garden-bed, and there, in bright array, The little flowers looked blithely up to greet the smiling day. Safe hid from Jack Frost's piercing breath, he never saw them there,
And the flowers still bloom for Margery, to thank her for her care.
Activity 2 ~ Jack Frost
1. Write the rhyming pattern for the poem. _________________2. Highlight alliterations in yellow. 3. Highlight similes in green.4. Highlight personifications in blue.
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Jack Frost by Helen Leah Reed
Oh! it is little Margery who has a garden-bed, Wherein grow purple pansies and geraniums white and red, With feverfew and dahlias, and delicate pink phlox, And grandmother's fair favorites, old-fashioned hollyhocks. One night we feared Jack Frost might come to blight the tender flowers - We almost felt his cruel breath in the early evening hours; So Margery took coverings and spread them, thick and warm, To shield the flowers, as blankets wrap a sleeping baby's form. Then in the morning, when we looked across the dewy grass, And saw the traces Jack Frost leaves where he is wont to pass - For each spreading tree and slender bush had felt his chill caress, And some had drooped, and some had blushed in crimson loveliness - We hastened to the garden-bed, and there, in bright array, The little flowers looked blithely up to greet the smiling day. Safe hid from Jack Frost's piercing breath, he never saw them there,
And the flowers still bloom for Margery, to thank her for her care.
Activity 2 ~ Jack Frost - Answer Key
1. Write the rhyming pattern for the poem. ____AABB_____2. Highlight alliterations in yellow. 3. Highlight similes in green.4. Highlight personifications in blue.
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Activity 3 ~ Jack Frost
1. Write the rhyming pattern for the poem. _________________2. Use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two Jack Frost poems.
Jack Frost by Helen Bayley Davis Someone painted pictures on my Windowpane last night — Willow trees with trailing boughs And flowers, frosty white, And lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun Touched them with its golden beams, They vanished one by one!
Jack Frost by
Helen Leah Reed
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Jack Frost by
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Activity 3 ~ Jack Frost - Answer Key
1. Write the rhyming pattern for the poem. _A B C B_________2. Use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two Jack Frost poems.
Jack Frost by Helen Bayley Davis Someone painted pictures on my Windowpane last night — Willow trees with trailing boughs And flowers, frosty white, And lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun Touched them with its golden beams, They vanished one by one!
Jack Frost by
Helen Leah Reed
Jack Frost is portrayed
as someone bad, the
villain, who will cause
harm. Some examples
include cruel breath
and chill caress.
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Jack Frost by
Helen Bayley Davis
Jack Frost is playful
and leaves behind
beautiful artwork on
the window. Some
examples of this
include trailing boughs,
crystal butterflies, and
frosty flowers.
Both
Jack Frost is
personified as a person.
Jack Frost leaves
traces behind.
The sun comes out and
Jack Frost goes away.
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Activity 4 ~ North Wind Rhyme
Create a second verse for the North Wind rhyme by filling in the blanks.
The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow,
And what will __________ ____________ do then, poor thing?
He'll ___________________ and _________________________
and ________________________________________, poor thing.
Now write your poem on the next page along with an illustration.
The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow, And what will poor robin do then, poor thing? He'll sit in a barn and keep himself warm and hide his head under his wing, poor thing.
adjective animal
What will this animal do to keep warm? Where will this animal go to keep warm?
What will this animal do all winter long?
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