Similies about Friendship from 5th graders point of view:
Friendship is like a:
Cloud soft and sensitive, if you make wrong choices you might lose it, like when a storm comes
Pencil, because sometimes the tip breaks off and a friendship ends
Bee because it takes a lot of work to make honey / sweetness in friendship
School because in friendship you learn a lot about your friend and it takes times to learn.
Charm bracelet because it represents stages and experiences that friends may go through
Scrapbook because the pictures represent experiences, good and bad, friends may go through
Cookie because it is sweet, warm, and if you let it crumble or eat it, the friendship goes away. You can keep on adding to it and make it bigger and bigger, thus more sweetness and more warmth and comfort.
Tree because if you don’t take care of it by fertilizing and nurturing it, it will die.
Sunflower because it starts off like a seed and grows into a beautiful flower
Dog because it starts off like a little puppy and grows and matures each year
Rainbow because it represents the beauty of different people coming together in friendship
Instrument because you have to keep it fine tuned and you keep learning more music as time goes along and if you don’t take care of the instrument, it will break down.
Painter’s Palette because you start with the three primary colors and then you are able to mix them together to make new ones. When a friendship starts it is simple like primary colors, but it expands and gets more detailed until you have a colorful palette.
Music box because you have to keep working at it by winding it up or there will be no music
Flame because it starts off small and grows
Fish because you have to take real good loving care for it to survive
Air Force One because if you don’t fix it or take care of it, it doesn’t remain strong and weather the storms.
Flag because the white represents the good times and the red represents the bad times that are weathered jointly in a friendship.
Gold because gold is refined through fire and friendship is tested through ups and downs
Angel because it represents the sweetness that over time develops between true friends.
Vanilla Bean Frapchino because it is so good and sweet, but if you drop it, it could spill, thus no more friendship. You have to be careful with it.
Nature, because if you don’t care for it and nurture it, it will die and thus your friendship will die.
Clock because you got to change the batteries if you want to keep it ticking, thus people have to keep changing in the relationship.
Ship because it takes all the people to keep the boat going for seas, rough or calm.
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My, what wisdom your students possess! They must have a wonderfully wise mentor and teacher to develop such lofty and sagacious obsevations about life. Keep up the good work, Rena, of training up your students in the way that they should go and when they are mature they will rise up and call you blessed, as surely you already are.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful children with us.
What thoughtful and creative comparisons Mrs. O’s class have for friendship and what understanding these children show about a friend. They really make the meaning of a friend come alive with so many unique ideas! Thanks for sharing all these.
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” Ralph Waldo Emersons
And mine is really beautiful at times when you and other visit.