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Virginia
F. Giacobone's First Grade |
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Book: The Mitten Tree by Candace Christiansen |
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Brenda Asher's First Grade |
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Books: Geraldine's Big Snow by Holly Keller |
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Diamante Poem
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Patti
Warren's First Grade |
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Acrostic Poem |
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Ada
Swanson's Room 3 First Grade |
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Book: White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt |
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Jacqueline Ross' First Grade |
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Books: Dear Rebecca Winter Is Here by Jean Craighead George and Missing Mitten Mystery by Steven Kellogg This has been really
hard because winter |
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Sensory Poems
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Nancy
Golubic's First Grade |
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Books: The Mitten by Jan Brett and We read many winter books and poems in our first grade class in Boardman, Ohio. It's been quite a winter! We've already had 3 snow days! We wrote a 5Ws poem about The Mitten and Snowflake Bentley and then wrote 5Ws poems about ourselves! |
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Carole Underwood's 3rd Grade |
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Book: We read several Jan Brett books |
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In addition to
this class poem, we wrote winter cinquain and acrostic poems which you can see on our
webpage:
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Mrs. Brown's K /1 class |
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Books: The Hat and The Mitten by Jan Brett We read a different winter book every day for the month of January. These were two of our favorites. |
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5 Senses Poem
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Carolyn Williams' 2nd Grade |
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Book: Thomas' Snowsuit by Robert Munsch |
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After reading this book, we decided to read as many Robert Munsch books as we could and we wrote this poem: 5 W Poem
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Beth Brandes' First Grade |
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Book: The Snowchild by Debi Gliori |
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Free Verse Poem
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Mrs.
Ertel's 2nd Grade |
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Book: The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader We read the book and
wrote this ABC poem. Now the students are working on poems of their own. |
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ABC Poem
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| Patti Beaudry Grade 1B Cadotte Lake School Cadotte Lake, Alberta, Canada |
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| Book: North Country Night by Daniel San Souci | |
Rhyming Poem
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Mrs.
Rowland's First Graders |
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Books: Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root |
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First, we read a fun winter book called Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root. This
book explains that snow comes from Grandmother Winter's quilt made of goose feathers which
she shakes over everything and everyone. Free Verse Poem
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| Dina Peters' First Grade Van Cortlandtville Elementary Mohegan Lake, New York |
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| Book: Winter by Pauline Cartwright | |
| During our shared reading experience with this book, we learned how to use a K-W-L chart to help us learn about winter. We also discussed the five senses and what we see, hear, taste, smell, and feel in winter. To wrap up our unit, we composed a shared writing piece. This was our first experience with writing an acrostic poem, and boy did we have fun! Enjoy! | |
Acrostic Poem
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Mrs. McClanaghan's First Grade |
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Book: White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt |
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Acrostic Poem
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| Gayle Hamilton's First Grade Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Yorktown Heights, New York |
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| Book: The
Snow Kept on Falling by Kathie Mc Queary This is the story of a snowstorm that lasted an entire day. A repeating pattern in the book was "The snow kept on falling." The children connected the book with Christmas Day 2002 when a major snowstorm hit our area and left us with over a foot of snow! We decide to write our poem using the same pattern and using the entire day as the author did. |
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Pattern Poem
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Michele
Nash's 2nd Grade |
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Book: Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
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| We read this 1999 Caldecott Award winning
book . We learned that Wilson Bentley was an amazing man full of patience and questions. After we read the book, we wrote a class poem about him. Our poem followed the pattern used in a book by Margaret Wise Brown titled The Important Book.
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| Mrs. Eileen Lynch's Third grade Lincoln Titus Elementary Crompond, NY |
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| Book: When
It Starts to Snow by Phillis Gershator Our class read this book and wrote a poem together. |
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Free Verse Poem
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Mary
Sheridan's 1st Grade Language Lab |
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Book: Stranger in the Woods |
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innocence of youth and the beauty of nature with a stunning photographic essay. We read the book and marveled at the pictures. Acrostic poems were then written using the word SNOWMAN. We shared our poems at a K-4 Poetry recital with a pretend fire and real hot chocolate!!
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| Debbie Rastin's Grade One Trafalgar PS London, ON Canada |
| Book: How Cold Was It? by Jane Barclay |
Cinquain Poem |
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Mrs.
McGowan's First Grade |
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Book: Flowers For The Snowman by Gerda Marie Scheidl |
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 A very unhappy snowman searches for the rainbow-colored flowers he has heard about. Although some animals try to discourage him, the snowman continues his search. Exhausted, he leans on a door and falls into a greenhouse of beautiful flowers. In the morning the gardener shovels the melting snow into the yard where some children remake the snowman. Now he's a happy snowman who remembers seeing flowers in every color of the rainbow. We really enjoyed this lovely book and used a poem to retell the story after the second reading. The diamante format is challenging for first graders but can be accomplished successfully when written with the whole class. We chose a 4-line poem format for our individual poems about winter. We hope you will enjoy all of them! Diamante Poem
We also wrote 4-line poems about winter. You can read them and see our illustrations on this website: |
| Laura Brantley's 2nd Grade Caldwell County Primary Princeton, KY |
| Book: The Mitten by Jan Brett |
We chose to write a four line poem because
it was a great way to review nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The students loved the story.
After making our class poem I had the students work with a partner to complete an acrostic
poem about The Mitten. The students are all very excited to see their poem on the web. 4-Line Poem |
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Barbara Centofanti's First Grade |
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Free Verse Poem
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| Georgia Cloer's First Grade Mitchell Road School Greenville, SC Mrs. Cloer's Classy Clowns and Classy Clowns School Website |
| Book: The Mitten by Jan Brett |
We have been reading
all of Jan Brett books during January |
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Kirsten
Davis' 2nd Grade |
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Book: Sadie and the Snowman by Allen Morgan |
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This book fit nicely with our current
science unit, Changes.
We had
fun being a part of this poetry project. We enjoyed the poems which have been posted
thus far and look forward to reading more! |
Roberta
Gray's 2nd Grade |
Our Winter Book List |
Please visit our class website to read how we made this shape poem and our individual student poems. |
| Mrs. Hehner's 3rd Grade Queen of All Saints School St. Louis, Missouri |
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| Book: Ralph's Frozen Tale by Elise Primavera | |
| Our class was so lucky! A former student in
our grade school, Tyler, was off of high school for the day. He volunteered to come and
spend the day with our class! Tyler planned lots of fun activities. He read us this winter
book. It is a great story! After listening to the story our class wrote this poem
together. |
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RALPH'S RADICAL NORTH POLE ADVENTURE Ralph is very brave
because he battles snakes.
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Sally
Balm's 2nd grade |
Book: Scooby Doo! and Santa's Bake Shop |
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| Malinda Ponton's First Grade Riverdale Elementary Orlando, Florida |
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| Book: Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root | |
| After reading the book we discussed who
Grandmother Winter really was and whether she was a real person. We discovered the
word metaphor and decided that Grandmother Winter was a metaphor for the season winter. The following is the class "5 W’s Poem" we wrote together. It tells who, does what, when, where & why. |
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Laura
Trapp's First Grade |
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Book: Mrs. Toggle's Zipper by Robin Pulver |
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We laughed and laughed as we read about the teacher who couldn't get her coat off! Her zipper was stuck and the thingamajig that pulls the zipper was missing! We wrote this acrostic poem together.
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have been enjoying reading the poems from other classes. |
Judi Robertson's First Grade |
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Book: Snow is Falling by Franklyn Mansfield Branley |
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This is a "Let's Read and Find Out" book about snow. We used a "patterned poem" as our framework. The children brainstormed a list of descriptive words about snow, many of which came from the book. We put them on index cards and arranged and re-arranged and re-arranged again until we got the final results!
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© 2003 - Marci McGowan ~ Read A Winter Book - Write A Winter Poem ~ |
Read A Winter Book ...Write A Winter Poem
By
Mary 
After reading several fiction, non-fiction,
and poetry books about winter, we decided to write a shape poem for our class poem. We
discussed many ideas and decided to write about snowflakes.