Colorful Spring: Mrs. Meineke's Class

Colorful Spring!
A Collaborative Internet Literacy Project Spring 2005

Mrs. Sara Meineke's Second Grade
Monroe May Elementary School
San Antonio, Texas

Books: What Does Bunny See? A Book of Colors and Flowers
           by Linda Sue Park and illustrations by Maggie
           Smith. Copyright 2005
Lost in the Woods: A photographic fantasy
           by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoich Copyright 2004

In preparation for writing a poem about spring these books were shared.

Next during mid April, our class took a nature walk through our beautiful courtyard. Wildflowers were in bloom.

As students observed signs of spring they sketched pictures and color words into a journal. The next day the students brainstormed a class web about spring in Texas using information from their journals.

Each student then wrote a separate acrostic spring poem. Finally, parts of students' acrostic poems were used to create the class poem, Colorful Spring in Texas.

Fields of beautiful bluebonnets swaying in the breeze,
Gray mocking birds nesting in pecan trees.

Brown, baby roadrunners racing down the road,
Signs of a colorful spring are beginning to unfold.

Red and yellow Indian paintbrushes shining in the sun,
Artists on the Riverwalk painting everyone.

Pretty pink primroses hiding in blades of green grass,
Red, ripe strawberries ready to be picked at last.

Fields of scarlet poppies dotting hill and dale,

Spring cold fronts bringing quarter size
white balls of hail.

Yellow blossoms of the prickly pear open up at dawn,
Peeking through the trees we see the
tan coat of a baby fawn.

The setting of the sun behind the Alamo
Tells us it is time for the red, white, and blue fireworks of the Fiesta show.

Colorful Fiesta tells us spring is in the air,
Colorful spring in Texas is blooming everywhere.

By Mrs. Meineke's Second Grade Class

The project addresses the following standards:

Second Grade Language Arts
2.2 Listening/speaking/culture. (A) Connect experiences and ideas with those of others through speaking and listening.

2.11 Reading/text structures/literary concepts. (D) Recognize the distinguishing features of familiar genres, including stories, poems, and informational texts.

2.14 Writing/purpose (A) write to record ideas and reflections (K-3;
(D) Write in different forms for different purposes such as lists to record, letters to invite or thank, and stories or poems to entertain (1-3).

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