Serving Up Idioms.....

Idioms can be difficult for my students.  It was funny to hear their discussions over all the sayings and thoughts as to what they meant.  It amazed me how many idioms the kids had never heard before.  Once we started studying them - they were on a scavenger hunt and during lessons they would say, "That was an idiom" or when they were reading a book, they would bring me an idiom that was in their book.  I love to see them excited over learning and finding what they are learning in their real every day worlds.

This was one of our assignments.  I think they did great!

I got the idea from another "Pinterest" user.  Students had the idiom on the back of the plate and wrote what it meant.  Then on the front of the plate, they drew their version of the literal meaning.  They  used the "napkin" to write a scenario using the idiom in context so that anyone reading it could use the clues to come up with the correct meaning.  On the front of the folded 1/2 sheet of paper was an image of a fork and knife as you can see in the first picture!