Mrs. Ireland: Colorful Spring Project

Colorful Spring!
A Collaborative Internet Literacy Project Spring 2005

Mrs. Elaine Ireland’s Second Grade
D.J. Schoular Public School
Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada
Class Website

We read and discussed many stories about Spring.

When Spring Comes by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
First day of Spring by Sharon Gordon
Spring is Here by Jane Belk Marcure
There’s More, Much More by Sue Alexander
It’s Spring by Samantha Berger and Pamela Chanko
Are you a Bee? by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries

We presented a reader’s theatre style choral reading of Frog and Toad’s The Garden by Arnold Lobel. We included sound effects, singing a song titled Each of us is a Flower, and we created a dance to the song English Country Garden. This labeled artwork depicts all the information included in that song:

Click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of this special art activity.

The pussywillows image is another of our spring art activities:

We learned about and created cinquain and sensory poems on Spring. As an extension of our spring animal research projects we created character poems about animals in the Spring.

We worked on class poems and individual poems. The poems that were voted to go on this site were:

Spring

robins come

seeds grow flowers

playful active exercise muddy

Spring.

By Kaia Sequillion

In Spring I see the sun.

In spring I hear the wind.

In spring I feel happy.

In spring I taste strawberries.

In spring I smell freshness.

by Austin O’Neill

Canada Geese have long necks, deep voices and 3 kinds of feathers.

Who loves to make noise, fly in groups of 200, in a V formation.

Who eats grass, grains, berries, corn, wild plants, insects, pond weed and algae.

Who shares food with their babies.

Who fears their enemy the red fox.

Who likes to see their family and friends.

Who dreams of catching their food.

Who ends up back home in the north.

by Jenica Yellen

Parts of the Ontario Grade 2 Curriculum which pertain to the activities we participated in for this project were:

Writing: express thoughts and feelings about ideas in a piece of writing; identify characteristics of different forms of written materials

Science: compare ways in which animals eat their food, move, and use their environment to meet their needs

identify and describe behavioural characteristics that enable animals to survive (e.g., migration, dormancy, hibernation)

Drama: interpret the meaning of stories using several basic drama and dance techniques

Music: produce a specific effect (e.g., create a soundscape as background for a story or poem), using various sound sources