That's What Happens When It's Spring!

Boni Fulgham's First Grade Classes
Lumpkin County Elementary School
Dahlonega, Georgia
Project Website

Some of our favorite spring books are:
That's What Happens in the Spring by Elaine W. Good
Poems for Spring selected by Robert Hull
Beginning to Learn About Spring
by Richard Allington and Kathleen Krull

We read about spring and discussed the signs of spring in our area. Then, we looked at different forms of poetry: 5w's, Senses, Acrostic, and Spring is...! Finally, we voted on the form of poetry each class would like to write and worked cooperatively to write our poem. The students used KidPix3 to illustrate their copies of the class poem.
   

by A.T.

by G.P.


by S.C.

by E.S.

by M.M.

by E.G.

by C.A.

Georgia QCC Standards addressed during this project:

LA1.1 Listens to a variety of literary forms including stories and poems.
LA1.8 Uses a variety of language patterns and sentence structures.
LA1.31 Uses examples from literature to create individual and group stories.
LA1.36 Communicates ideas by using the writing process.
LA1.37 Uses available technology to assist in writing.
LA1.42 Identifies literary forms.