We celebrate national opposite day on January 25th. We don’t have to only celebrate opposite day on January 25th. Check out some of these resources to celebrate any day of the year!
Spark your thinking!
1. Set up your language arts mini spark recording page: #68: National Opposite Day
2. Watch this video. Oh, SpongeBob! Write about your favorite part on your recording sheet.
3. On your recording page, make a list of 10 things you could do today that are the opposite of what you would normally do. Examples: eat breakfast for dinner, greet your friends with “goodbye” instead of “hello”, or write your name backwards all day.
4. Palindromes are words written the same forward as backward. Mom and Dad Are Palindromes, written by Mark Shulman, has many examples palindromes. Watch the video and write down your 5 favorite palindromes from the story on your recording page.
5. Contronyms are words that have contradictory or opposite meanings.
- CLIP can mean to “cut off” (as in clipping a coupon) or “attach” (as you do with a paperclip)
- DUST can mean to “to remove particles” or “add fine particles” (as in dusting a cake with sugar)
- LEFT can mean “remaining” (as in one piece left) or “departed” (as in “she left ten minutes ago.”)
- SEED can mean ” seeds put in” (as in “seeded with native grasses”) or “to remove seeds” (as in “seeding a watermelon”).
Add these words to a list on your recording page and think of 2 more on your own.
6. Check out more examples here and add a few more to your list.
7. Share your language arts mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.
Lesson ideas are from Big Ideas for little Scholars .
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