Go Bananas
for Idioms
a collaborative
grammar book written by
Mrs. Hoyme’s
Fourth Grade Homeroom students
We Fourth Graders find the study of words fascinating. It is fun for us to learn how to use words and expressions correctly in our writing. We also enjoy learning the correct terms for the different kinds of words we meet and use.
We recently read a story in which the author effectively used idioms. Idioms are expressions that mean something quite different than what the words actually say. Our class brainstormed a list of idioms that we commonly hear and discussed the meanings of these phrases. As a homework, our assignment was to ask our parents to help us think of other commonly used idioms. We brought them back to school the next day and continued our brainstorm list.
Here are just a few of the phrases we came up with:
| add fuel to the fire | tickled pink |
| break a leg | full of hot air |
| cry over spilled milk | dead duck |
| turn the other cheek | cat got your tongue |
| eat your heart out | hold your horses |
| bite off more than you can chew | let the can out of the bag |
| beat around the bush | on pins and needles |
| off the top of your head | pull your leg |
| fly the coop | drive me crazy |
| down in the dumps | eyes in the back of your head |
| final straw | go fly a kite |
| off your rocker | has a screw loose |
To construct our class book, each student selected an idiom, wrote a sentence using the idiom, and illustrated the sentence literally. Here are just a few of the pages from our book recently published by the Canby Elementary School Press.
If you like what you see hear, stop by our classroom to see the entire book. We think you'll enjoy reading it!
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