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Memorial Day Analogies
Complete the following analogies. For analogy help, click here.
Thankfulness is to Thanksgiving Day as memories is to Betsy Ross Memorial Day Thursday autumn .
Flag Day is to June as Memorial Day is to May Friday Monday October .
Military is to honor as good citizen is to Veterans Day duty July 4th cereal .
D-Day is to 6 June 1944 as Memorial Day as is to 31 May Saturday mornings 25 December 1 April .
Winter is to Christmas as spring is to horses Memorial Day football farms .
Courage is to cowardice as persistence is to orange quitting whining yellow .
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Memorial Day Alliteration
Alliteration is a lot of fun and great for long car rides. For alliteration help, click here.
Example: Melodious memorable merry mercenaries met messy miserable mimes.
Do your own Memorial Day Alliteration for memories, duty, independenece, diligence, honor, cheerfulness, respect, freedom
Hint: If you have difficulty creating alliteration phrases, try the formula below ...
Memorial Day Onomatopoeia Activities Remember: Onomatopoeia = Words that imitate sounds or sounds that are linked with objects. In short, literary sound effects. (from Greek = name-making)
Pronounced: on-o-mat-o-PEE-a
Quick ... what sound ...
— What sound do you hear on when wind hits a flag overhead? — What sound is heard when a family joins veterans to military grave sites to give a 21 gun salute? — What sound do you hear when a family secretly purchases a poppy to help a disabled veteran? — What sound is heard when a family writes a letter to the local Veterans of Foreign Wars or American Legion thanking them for their sacrifice? — What sound do you hear when a family writes a letter to the Pentegon thanking active duty military for their sacrifice? — What sound is heard when a family prays for the protection of those military members protecting their country?
Word Power (Anagrams)
Anagrams = An anagram is a rearrangement of the letters of one word to form another word or phrase.
Get a three minute egg timer.
See how many three, four , five and six letter words can you make out of the following words in three minutes ...
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