from the mouths of babes

This week all of my students are working on writing projects. In the second grade, we're writing about our favorite vacations. In the third grade we're writing about our families. In the sixth and seventh grades, I put a bunch of random things on a table and had the kids choose items to make comparisons. I invite you to read what some of them wrote:

• Friendship is like a pen drive because it is always going everywhere with you, and through it you can pass fun moments.


• Friendship is like a book, because the book have many emotions, when somebody is sad, happy, angry, and more things. The friendship can be long or short like a book but true friendship is long, is funny, and is happy.


• Friendship is like a lighter. The lighter starts things and we can start a friendship. Some friendships go out like the lighter. Sometimes the lighter can provoke fire and the friendship can become another thing (more than friends) [Alyssa's note- written by a 6th grade girl:)].


• Friendship is like glue because when you have a friend your friend stick to you like the glue to the paper.


• Friendship is like a cellphone because you show off your friendship and you brag about your phone.


• Friendship is like an mp4 because the mp4 memory have very many things and in our minds we have very important stories about our friends. Friendship is like an mp4 because when we're so wasted we have to sleep for recharge for be a better friend [Alyssa's note- "wasted" here is translated from "gastado" I'm sure- meaning when you're really, really tired!!! :)]


• Friendship is like a camera because it captures my beautiful moments. And if you are bad you can lose it.

• Life is like Rocio's cellphone because it has many options. You can press one of the buttons, and the life you can choose what you wanna do. In the life you can do bad things, and with the cellphone, too.


• Life is like the hair scrunchy because the scrunchy has different forms and the life, too. The scrunchy has many colors, could be green could be pink, blue, every color that we want. The life is like that because everyday the life is a different color. One day is green when we are happy, another day is blue when we are angry.


• Life is like a movie because in a movie you can see romance, action, and comedy. And in the life you live the same things.


• Life is like a cellphone charger because the charger have a purpose that is to recharge and we have a purpose too that only God knows. Life is like a charger because a charger is portable and you can put it wherever you want, and your life, too. For example if you like you can put your life in the God's hands.


• Life is like scotch tape because it is long. But one moment it could finish and so it's important to take advantage to use it, to do the things in a good form. And the tape isn't long.


• Life is like a dice because you never know what will happen in your life, and also you never know if you are playing in what number will the dice stop. You don't know if you will die tomorrow, and you don't know if you will lose all your money playing dice in a casino in Las Vegas.
  
  



• Learning is like this hand gel, because we can open our minds to learn more like we open the lid of the hand gel. The hand gel clean our hands and to learn clean our mind.


• Learning is like a yo-yo because when you don't learn you get down and whey you learn you get up.


• Learning is like a sticker because this sticker is boring and learning, too [written by a 7th grade boy! :) ]
  
  



• Time is like a camera because the end of your time will come and the camera's battery have an end, too.


• Time is like "UNO" cards because you don't know how long will the game last and the time is the same thing. You never control the time like you never desire when the game will end (you always want to keep playing once the game is over). The game could last a lot of hours and it can also last a few minutes. You never know.

And for the record, my kids actually speak much better English than that. But the point of this exercise was to have them write as much as they could in 5 minutes, so I was giving classroom bucks to whichever student wrote the most words about each item:) Had they proofread or taken the time to think about grammar, they would have done much better :)

And just for fun, I added the picture of the surprise I found when I cut into my red pepper, today (which cost me nearly $1)! Can you tell what it is? Yum!