When You're 8...

When you are 8, and learning about comparing two things with similes, these are some of the things you might write:
(all taken from an assignment I had my students working on today. You should have HEARD the giggles coming from every crevice of my classroom...)
"she is as beautiful as a hippopotamus"
"the floor was as slippery as gorilla poop."
"his voice was as loud as a fart."
"his little sister was as annoying as a crab pinching my toe"
"his little sister was as annoying as annoying orange"
"his shoes were as smelly as dog jroppings"
"his cheeks were like a cheekmonk"
"the pizza was as spicy as a holopeno gloo stick"
"the work was as hard as a acuity test"  (my fellow Roose peeps will enjoy that one!)
One of my favorites was as follows:  "Mrs. Vala, what does stubborn mean?"  Me:  "It's kind of like when you think you are always right, you always want your way, you don't want others to tell you the way it is."  Without any hesitation, and before I could even finish explaining what stubborn meant, kid in my class with 3 sisters writes:   "sometimes he thought his friend was as stubborn as.... a sister."
I also enjoyed this one :  "he worked as hard as a teacher"

Oh those kids.  They make me chuckle.  This assignment was kind of as awesome for them as looking up naughty words in the dictionary when they think nobody is watching.