Thank You Hashem Book

This is one of my favorites! I stumbled upon this at the beginning of my teaching career. Some class in Colorado or someplace had read it and then drawn their own idioms. I adopted that project and have done it ever since.

Fred Gwynne, of course, played Herman Munster. Each page depicts a different idiom. Each idiom is accompanied by a picture that shows the literal meaning of the idiom. For instance, a chocolate moose is shown as the animal moose made of chocolate.

My students have great fun reading this each year. As time moves on, some of the idioms feel dated. A guerilla war, for instance, is something that my students don't quite understand.

I look forward to reading this each year. I tend to read it in November as it fits in with our investigation of figurative language.
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22 November 2010
23 November 2011