Mrs. Penley's Third Grade
Weatherbee School
Hampden, Maine
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We read the book Spring's Sprung by Lynn Plourde (a Maine author). Our class brainstormed signs of spring in Maine and worked in cooperative groups writing stanzas for our class poem.  The illustrations were made in Hyperstudio.

Here are three stanzas of the poem.

Spring in Maine

Warm, sunny days with not even one cloud in the sky
    makes the white fluffy snow go bye-bye!
That’s what happens when it’s spring.
When the big gray clouds come our way
    it rains hard and it rains lightly,
The mud starts to get thick and brown.
That’s what happens when it’s spring!



Spring is a time to go to the canoe races.
We hear cold, wet people yelling, water rushing,
boats scraping on rocks, water splashing.
We see red, yellow, green and blue canoes and kayaks being paddled in water.
We smell the water and the damp soil,
We feel excited and sorry for the cold, wet people.
It doesn’t matter if you lose,
You’re lucky to just finish!
That’s what happens when it’s spring.

Little purple crocuses,
soft pussy willows,
tulips blooming,
That’s what happens when it’s spring.
Grass getting patches of green,
Trees building fat little buds,
That’s what happens when it’s spring!