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About ...
Colorful Spring!
 Background
& Objectives
Colorful
Spring!
is an online collaborative literacy project. Students will share
signs of a colorful spring in their different communities through
poems and illustrations. Classes K-4 and older special
education students are welcome to participate.
After
reading and listening to spring stories and identifying
signs of spring, students will illustrate and write
a descriptive class or individual poem that includes the
color(s) of this new season. Some topics might be
yellow daffodils, red and white baseballs, pink tulips,
yellow chicks, green leaf buds, brown rabbits, white clouds,
gray clouds... and so many more!
The
project fits well in a study about seasons or communities, and includes whole-class and individual student
poetry writing. It's also a good project for teachers new
to Internet collaboration as well as those more experienced,
and it easily is aligned to literacy, science, social
studies and
technology standards.
A similar project, hosted in 2002, was based on Elaine Good's book,
That's What Happens When It's Spring!
It received a
Miss Rumphius Award from the RTEACHER Listserv
(International Reading Association).
What
to do: Project Specifics
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Join the project by registering (follow directions given
below).
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Read about
spring and pick a favorite book title to share with
project participants.
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Identify
signs of spring in your community, share with your
class, engage in lessons/activities related to the
season.
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Have students
write a whole class poem
that
includes color words.
Write individual spring poems.
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Illustrate
the writing or take related photographs.
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Some
suggestions for additional activities can be found on
our project
resources page.
register
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To
Register: Please send the following
information to Marci at
marcimcg@aol.com no later than
April 14, 2007:
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Email subject
line: Colorful Spring
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Your
name and title (Mr., Miss, Ms. Mrs.)
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Grade level
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Your
email address (just one)
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Name
of your school and town
*
Your registration will be confirmed by
email. If you have not received
confirmation after a week, please write
again. Class names will be posted when
all project requirements have been received. |
Submit
Your Project
Send in an email
to marcimcg@aol.com
no later than April 30,
2007:
* A favorite book title/author you recommend
for spring reading.
*A
class poem about spring in your community which
includes descriptive color words.
*No
more than two (2) images as jpg or gif
files (please try to resize the images
before sending).
*The state and technology standards your class
contribution reflects.
* Optional: address of class website showing
your students' spring writing work ( a link will be made to your
webpage)
** Please, Please!! Send NO html or doc pages, web
pages, background images or graphics.
I have to undo all that work and
adjust to formatting on my website.
Thanks!
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