~ FALL Poetry Project ~

(Webpage originally published on Family Education's myschoolonline)

This project closed in November 2000.  Samples of student work remain available as resources.

It was an honor to receive The Miss Rumphius Award from the members of RTEACHER mailing list (listserv) which runs in conjunction with The Reading Teacher, a journal of the International Reading Association. Thank you!

~ Marci McGowan

 

Welcome autumn, our most colorful season with your "brilliant pink, red, and orange"! It's a great time to appreciate nature and talk about the many changes taking place around us ... the weather, hours of daylight, animal behaviors, color of leaves, and the harvest of fruits and vegetables. We're celebrating the season by writing acrostic poems. This format is a good choice for "new poets".

I'm delighted to publish these terrific examples of class poetry writing. To find a specific poem, click on your grade level. Multilevel classes are listed by the highest grade. Enjoy!



Fall Acrostic Poems

Grade K - 1

Grade 2 -6
(sorry, no longer available)

Comments


Comments:

We finished our poem today. It was quite an experience! We chose one of two topics to write about, then when we finished we weren't sure we liked it. So then we wrote about the second topic, and were quite pleased with how it turned out. What a great time going through the writing process together!

Mrs. Burrows, Grade 2 Venetia Elementary, Jacksonville, FL

It's a new season! Yes, it's fall and it's .... spring! Students in South Africa were happy to see colder winter days leave as spring arrived in September. Sixth graders from Sterling Primary School join in celebrating the change of season with poetry about spring and autumn.

Mary Kreul, from Whitefish Bay, WI., sent an update telling how her 2nd grade students each wrote a poem and illustrated them using KidPix Deluxe.

We traced our hands in lots of fall colors to make piles of leaves to play in... then glued tumbling leaves on paper to display with our poems.  Thanks for the chance to be part of this!
~ Karen Barrow, Kindergarten, Surf City, NJ

Grade K - 1: Fall Poems

Ms. Johnston's 1J
Rocanville School, Rocanville, Sask., Canada

O ld witch
C andy apples
T rick or treat
O wls hoot
B lack cats
E -eeee-e-e-e!
R ound pumpkins


Mrs. M. Cole's First Grade
Liberty School
Great Meadows, New Jersey

C olors like a rainbow
O range, red, yellow, and brown
S o pretty
T o see
U nderneath the trees
M ountains of leaves for
E veryone to jump in.


Mrs. Gatyas' 1st Grade
Liberty School
Great Meadows, New Jersey

P lump and round
U se for pies
M ade for you
P aint a scary face
K ind of spooky
I nto a jack-o-lantern
N ice and bright

Mrs. Warriner and Mrs. Nyte's 1st Grade
Langley Fundamental Elementary School, Langley, BC, Canada

L et's jump in the leaves!
E verywhere leaves are falling!
A corns, apples, pinecones, pears
V ery pretty colors
E xtra bright - green, red, orange, gold
S ummer is gone;

Fall is here!


Karen Barrow's Kindergarten
Surf City, NJ

F at jack-o'-lanterns
A pples shiny bright
L eaves gently falling,
L ike snowflakes in the night.		 F aces painted
A nd costumes on
L ittle children walking
L isten to them say,
              Trick-or-Treat!



Mrs. Healey's 1st Grade
Mill Hill School, Southport, CT

A is for All the Awesome Activities we do in school!
 U is because each leaf is Unique (just like us)!
T is for Twenty Terrific 1H poets
U is for remembering to look UP at the trees!
M is for magnificent colors!
N is because Nothing is better than Autumn in Connecticut!

Mrs. McGowan's 1st Grade
H.W. Mountz School, Spring Lake, NJ

   Falling leaves
      Apple picking
         Leaves blowing
            Leaves changing colors.      FALL!

 

Mrs. Cruz's 1st Grade
Cerbat Elementary, Kingman, Arizona

Fall In Arizona

Falling leaves.
A pples.
L eaves all over the place.
L iving in the desert.

I t is Fall!
N inety degrees.

A sking questions.
R unning in the rain.
I guanas sleep.
Z ig zag
O wls hoot.
N ights are cool.
A rizona in the fall is awesome!

Ms. McBride-Wentzell's Primary Class
Beechville, Lakeside, Timberlea Elementary
Timberlea, Nova Scotia, Canada

Fall

F alling leaves,
     A corn collecting,
          L ittle children smile...
               L ots of fun!

 

Mrs. Schmidt's 1st Grade
Corpus Christi School, Willingboro, NJ

     F rosty mornings,
            A time for sweaters,
                 L eaping into leaves,
                      L eaves need raking.

We Love Fall!!

Grade 2 - 3: Fall Poems

Mrs. Singer's 2nd Grade
Terryville Road School
Port Jefferson Station, New York

Squirrels run all around in Long Island, New York
 Quietly they sneak around in the trees and gather acorns
 Usually squirrels make their homes in tall trees
 I n the winter squirrels hibernate
 Really they can walk on wires like an trapeze artist in the circus
 Rabbits run the other way when they see a squirrel come by
 Each squirrel has fun with their family
 Look up in the trees and you might see a squirrel.

 

Ms. Jacoby's 2nd Grade
Peirce School, Arlington, MA
 

S chool, such a fun place to be
 C lasses filled with smart children
 H omework will have to be done now
 O n school days, we're smiling and happy
 O lympic medals won for our efforts
 L earning - exciting and wondrous!

 

Ms. Kreul's 2nd Grade
Richards School, Whitefish Bay, WI

H A L L O W E E N

Haunted houses in the dark
  A pple cider, sweet and tart
     L ots of candy in my bag
       L eaves falling, crunch crunch
         O wls hooting in the trees
           W ind blowing...scaring kids
             E ating jack-o-lantern cookies
               E very kid gets lots of treats
                 N ow it's time to go to bed

Good-by, Halloween!