Colorful Spring! A
Collaborative Internet Literacy Project Spring 2005
Mrs.
Janet Chartrand's First Grade
Elizabeth Park Public School
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Book:
It's Spring by Linda Glaser
Apart
from a few sunny, warm days at the beginning of the month, April has been quite
grey and dreary. I think that may be why the children enjoyed doing this
project so much - it helped remind them of nicer days to come!
Our favourite spring book was It's Spring by Linda Glaser. Many of
the pictures reminded us of the area in which we live. Susan Swan did some
wonderful cut-paper illustrations which intrigued us all. The story and
pictures helped us to write our poem.
Colourful
Spring
In Ottawa in
the spring we see
10
light grey
pussy willows
9 robins with
bright orange
tummies
8 light
blue
robin's eggs
7
yellow
daffodils
6 pink
tulips
5
green
leaves
4
purple
crocuses
3
red
jackets
on the ground
2dark blue
baseball
caps
1
white
snowflake melting in the sun!
Provincial Expectations
Covered
Mathematics - Number Sense and Numeration:
- count backwards from 10
Science - Daily and Seasonal Changes:
- demonstrate an understanding of changes that occur in daily and
seasonal cycles
- investigate changes that occur in a daily cycle and in a seasonal
cycle
Language
Arts - Writing
- communicate ideas for specific purposes
- produce short pieces of writing using simple forms
Apart
from a few sunny, warm days at the beginning of the month, April has been quite
grey and dreary. I think that may be why the children enjoyed doing this
project so much - it helped remind them of nicer days to come!