If your school celebrates Red Ribbon Week, then you're probably familiar with the whole door decorating/class banner competition. My students were super excited to show off our banner. And to get out of class for a little bit!
I found a ton of great ideas on Pinterest, and was going to go with, "Make no bones about it. Drugs are bad!" I thought the kids could make little skeletons out of pasta and it would also tie in nicely with Halloween.
However, we're currently focusing on figurative language. I got to thinking how "make no bones" is an idiom. I thought it would be a great idea to tie in other idioms in relation to drug free/healthy choices. During our ELA block, I took some time teach the kids some new idioms. The students then turned those idioms into sentences that related to Red Ribbon Week slogans.
Here's a sample of some of the slogans e came up with...
Mind your p's and q's. Stay away from drugs!
Drugs are for the birds.
Take the bull by the horns. Say no to drugs.
Don't beat around the bush. Say no to drugs.
Each student then wrote out their idiom slogan on a half-piece of white paper and decorated it in a silly way to illustrate the idiom. The kids had fun, we learned some new idioms, and we made a pretty awesome banner.
What the Teacher Learned: Even an idiom knows that drugs are bad! And all that tie-in makes my life a lot easier.
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