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Joanne
Walker Room 20 |
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Book: Dear Rebecca, Winter is Here |
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| We got our wish as the temperatures here have been in the 80's this week. We also read "A Letter to Santa" and wrote letters asking Santa to bring something to someone else. |
| Lori Vig's 2nd Grade Washington School West Caldwell, NJ Website |
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| Book: The Snow Speaks by Nancy White Carlstrom | |
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weather in New Jersey lately...COLD. Our class has warmed up by reading many winter books.
The Snow Speaks by Nancy White Carlstrom, motivated us to write a terrific
diamante poem as a class. Another great idea for this book is to allow the children to imagine that they are the snow. They can write about what life would be like if they turned into snowflakes. Or why not write about what we would do if it snowed marshmallow, or eight feet! We hope that you enjoy our poem! We have certainly enjoyed sharing it with all of you! Happy winter! The Vigs |
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Janet Chartrand's First Grade |
Book: The Biggest, Best Snowman The children loved this book as it points out that size has nothing to do with what someone can do. Trying and having friends to help make all the difference. |
Little Nell and the
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Laura
Betz's First Grade |
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Book: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg After we read The Polar Express, we wrote a class acrostic poem. We tried to write this poem in the same order as the book. We hope you like it! We worked really hard on it!! |
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After this activity, we also wrote a class poem, but this time it was a free verse poem. We read Owl Moon and wrote a poem about a place, using our five senses. Our poem was titled Our School Playground. We look forward to writing individual poems soon! |
| Kerry Carlin's First Grade Benjamin Franklin Elementary School Shrub Oak, NY |
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| Book: Brave Irene by William Steig | |
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| Mrs. Wittman's Third Grade Sheldon Elementary School Varysburg, NY |
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| Book: Snow Day by Moira Fain | |
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Libby
Roden's Kindergarten Rm 20 |
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Book: Snowballs by Lois Elhert |
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Susan Biltucci's 3rd Grade |
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Book: The Snowball War by Bernice Chardiet |
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At some
point we are going to create snowmen out of Model Magic and write a "how to"
paragraph on creating them. |
Pam
Elliott's 2nd Grade |
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Book: The Mitten by Jan Brett |
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Mrs.
Foltz's First Grade |
Books: The First Snowfall by Anne and Harlow Rockwell and Snowy Winter Day by Estelle Feldman |
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Ellen Singsank's 2nd Grade |
Books: The Mitten and The Hat by Jan Brett |
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Lanise
Jacoby's Second Grade |
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Book: In the Snow by Huy Voun Lee With the Chinese New
Year on the horizon, this book was a perfect choice! In the story a mother takes her son
out into the first snow to introduce him to the writing of Chinese characters. |
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After reading the book, we set out to try
our own hand at Chinese calligraphy.
Here is what we wrote...
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Lisa Dryzal's 1st grade |
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You can read all our winter poems on our webpage: |
Mrs. McAllister's 2nd Grade Class |
Book: Snow by Uri Shulevitz We read this
book as a springboard for our poetry project. Through Shared Reading and Interactive
Writing, we created an Acrostic Poem, drawing from the language, images and story line of
the text. We then created our own Acrostic Poems. |
SNOW Snow is falling here and there, snow is falling everywhere! |
Ann
Heatherly's First Grade |
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Book: The Mitten Tree by Candace Christiansen |
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| Janice Baker's 2nd Grade Pine Tree Elementary School. Longview, TX Website |
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| Books: Stranger In the Woods
by Carl R. Sams II & Jean Stoick and The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader |
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In Texas we don't usually experience much snow so I read many
books about snow to give the students a feel for winter weather. Then the students
brainstormed words to create an acrostic poem for the word WINTER. Each child wrote
an acrostic poem, created snowflakes and a snowman for our "Frosty Friends"
bulletin board.
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Sandy
Huling's First Grade |
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Book: The Jacket I Wear in the Snow ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Acrostic Poems
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| Becky Dunn's 2nd Grade Lincoln Elementary School Madera, CA |
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| Book: Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome by Margaret Davidson This is a nonfiction story about a dog who was half wolf. He leads Gunnar Kasson's dog team into Nome with the serum needed to save the people of Nome from an outbreak of diphtheria. We wrote a class sensory poem about Balto and his adventure. |
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During a blizzard,
Balto led a dog team to Nome to bring serum to sick people.
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Nicole Taormina & Mrs. Lubin's First Grade |
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Book: What is Martin Luther King, Jr, Day? |
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| Myra Cooper's Second Grade 13th Avenue Community School Newark, New Jersey |
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| Book: The Black Snowman by Phil Mendez | |
Free Verse Poem
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Melissa Pearson's First Grade |
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| Winter Cinquain Poem | |
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Christine Hubner’s First Grade |
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Book: The World of Polar Bears |
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Acrostic Poem
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Nicole Taormina & Ms. Biagi |
Book: Snip, Snip Snow by Nancy Poydar |
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| Erika
D'Agostino's 2nd Grade Martha B. Day School Bloomingdale, NJ |
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| Book: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis | |
We have been studying the difference between fiction and nonfiction books. We just completed the fiction book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. A few weeks ago each student created their own acrostic poems on the theme of winter. As a class we created an acrostic poem on the same theme but, with a focus on this specific fiction book. The class enjoyed this creative activity!
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Renee
Meich's First Grade |
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Book: Snow Dance by Lezlie Evans |
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This book has great describing words for snow. We used the title to write our poem. |
| Debbie Coats' 2nd
Grade Clay Lamberton Elementary School Berlin, Wisconsin |
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| Book: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader |
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| Judy Hamlin's First Grade Nokomis School Medford Lakes, New Jersey |
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| Book: Plenty of Penguins by S. Black | |
Our class is doing a unit on penguins. One of the lessons was reading a penguin poem and illustrating it. Then we read the story Plenty of Penguins and wrote our own class acrostic poem about penguins using words from the story. Penguins
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Jennifer Cunniff's First Grade |
Book: Snow by Dr. Suess |
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| Mrs. Bonzer's First Grade Fisher Elementary School Marshalltown, IA |
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| Book: When Winter Comes by Robert Maass |
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This is a Scholastic nonfiction book with wonderful photographs. After reading the book, we made a web and wrote all of the things about winter that were in the book. We wrote an acrostic poem from the things that were in our web. Each student will also be writing about what they like about winter and drawing a picture. These will be included on our first grade website:
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Ms. Lamoureux’s First Grade |
Books: Is That
You Winter? by Stephen Gammell |
After reading these books, we wrote the following 5 Senses poems as shared writings: Winter I see snow, children,
gloves. Snowman |
| Nicole Taormina & Mrs. Bruno Boyle Road School Port Jefferson Station, NY |
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| Book: A Wish For Wings That Work by Berkeley Breathed |
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Acrostic Poem
After
reading this book, and learning that penguins cannot fly, in library class we tried our
first research project, looking up true non-fiction facts about penguins. Here are
some examples:
Deborah: Bobby: Ryan: |
| Mrs. Allen’s First Grade Class Nokomis School Medford Lakes, NJ |
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| Book: Emily and the Snowflake by Jan Wahl, Carolyn Ewing (illustrator) |
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We made our own paper snowflakes to decorate our classroom
windows. We wrote this poem using words from the story and words about winter.
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Mrs.
Hugo Grade 3 |
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Book: Brave Irene by William Steig |
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We responded to this literary selection by writing a character poem about the main character, Irene.
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© 2003 - Marci McGowan ~ Read A Winter Book - Write A Winter Poem ~ |
Read A Winter Book ...Write A Winter Poem
Back in the
classroom, we talked about the tradition of Chinese poetry - a simple, beautiful thought
put on paper. I challenged the class to create a poem using only the characters from
the story.
