5 activities designed to accompany your read aloud of Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar Express. These activities are perfect for a standards-aligned Polar Express theme day, or can be used to add a little festive fun to your afternoons leading up to winter break. Writing ActivitiesSimile Trees Craft – Students explore similes as they learn the definition of a simile and collect all the similes used in The Polar Express. They use that knowledge to write their own winter themed-similes which they di