Read A Winter Book
...Write A Winter Poem |
Read A Winter Book
...Write A Winter Poem |
Mrs.
Centofanti's First Grade |
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Books: Snow
by Uri Shulevitz and |
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Free Verse Poem
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Mrs.
Viviano's First Grade |
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Book: The Mitten by Jan Brett |
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Susan
Brown's First Grade |
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Books: Go To Sleep Little Groundhog |
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Character Poem
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Mr.
Cook's First Grade |
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Book: Thomas’ Snow Suit by Robert Munch |
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Mrs.
Nancy Golubic's 1st Grade 10:30 Group |
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We read many winter books, including The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, Flowers for the Snowman by Gerda Scheidl, Snow Day by Lynn Plourde. We also read Susan Jeffers' beautifully illustrated version of Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. |
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After talking about imagery and painting pictures with our words, we brainstormed for our senses poem. We listed things that we see, hear, feel, smell and taste on winter days. We picked our best images for our poem. You can see our poem and other winter projects on our Winter Fun webpage. Sensory Poem
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Joan O'Neill's Sp. Ed. Class |
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Book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats |
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Today we read the book, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Since it snowed yesterday, (and we had a snow day!) it was the perfect time for this book. It happens to be one of our favorites. We came up with two poems. We wrote these poems as a whole group. Some of the kids want to write their own poems, too! Free Verse Poem
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Mrs. Tricia German's First Grade |
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Book: The Mitten by Alvin Tressault and other versions |
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We read many versions
of The Mitten - the popular ones by Alvin Tressault and Jan Brett as well as 3
others - a different version for each day of the week! Cinquain
Then we examined the format for a 5 W poem. This was a new idea for us. Our result varies from the formula but answers questions while posing a question of our own. 5 W Poem Variation
Snow is so intrinsically magical to children. Our studies and stories led us to create individual poems using this frame: Snowflakes All my students were successful in creating a lovely verse but Sara demonstrated what a good ear for poetry she has by only choosing words that began with the same sound. 6-Line Poem
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Lisa
Dryzal's 1st Grade |
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Books: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
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Mrs.
Betz' 1st Grade |
 Our class read the book The Hat by Jan Brett. We wrote a class acrostic poem about details in the story. We also illustrated our favorite part of the book. |
The girl chased Hedgie Hedgie thought the
sock was a hat |
Cynthia Wright's 1st Grade |
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We spent a whole week on winter and snow and discussed different kinds of
poetry. We wrote together three poems and then voted on the one to submit to this project.
At the end of the week the children thought of a snow theme and created their own acrostic
poem. They then decorated a pattern of a child and put snow clothes on them. They look |
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Acrostic Poem
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Mrs.
Lisa Harmon's Grades 1-3 |
Winter is when… |
Snakes
are sleeping under the snow, |
Mrs.
Stephanie Wright's 1st Grade |
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Book: The Mitten by Jan Brett |
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Mrs.
Stone's 1st Grade Reading Class |
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Book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats |
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January 2004: After having 3 extra days of vacation because of snow, we finally went back to school. Our morning had to deal with snow (since we still had a lot of it on the ground - something unusual for our area). We read The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats) and then worked on individual acrostic poems using WINTER. You can also check out our WINTER Poems page on our class website. This poem was written by Sara: Acrostic Poem
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Dolores Foltz' 1st Grade |
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Books: The Mitten by Jan Brett We've been reading many winter books as we explore and experience this wonderful season. Some of our favorites are The Biggest Snowball Fight by Angela Medearis, Henry and Mudge and The Snowman Plan by Cynthia Rylant, and Snip, Snip, Snow! by Nancy Poydar. |
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| As a written extension on the winter theme, we wrote 4 line poems. Here is one student's poem: | ||
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After the
children had the experience of writing their own 4 line poems, we wrote a class poem to
complement The Mitten by Jan Brett. Here is our class poem:
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Kathy
Janzen's 2nd Grade |
| The students enjoyed reading many poems from past winter projects. Then we brainstormed fun things to do in winter and shared powerful describing words to make our poems interesting. Each student wrote their own poem and they turned out very well. We had just had a lot of snow so the students had lots of ideas to share. Each child contributed one line from their own poem to include in our class poem: |
Winter is cool! Building a snowman as big as my house Snowboarding down the sparkling slope Making snow angels in the beautiful snow Tobogganing in the fluffy, white snow Tasting a snowflake on my frozen tongue Skating on the frozen pond Riding down a hill in the sparkling snow Tasting the white fluffy snow Making a snow fort with my mom Playing in the snow with my friends Making soft snow angels Sitting by the glowing fire Tobogganing on the twirly hill Snowboarding down a hill Building a snow fort family Making snow angels in the soft, white snow Having a snowball fight in the front yard The snow is coming Drinking hot cocoa with creamy whip cream Speeding down the hill in the glowing snow Keeping warm by the cozy fire Sliding on ice with bikes Playing in the cold, chilly, nippy snow Winter is cool!
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Mrs.
Robertson's 1st Grade |
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Book: The Biggest, Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler |
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Cinquain
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Mr.
Paul White's 1st Grade |
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Book: Snow Day by Lynn Plourde |
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We read the story Snow Day by Lynn Plourde, a Maine children's author. We recreated the cover of her story into a bulletin board with models of us sledding on a snowy day.
While reading this
story we found out that Lynn has a special style of writing. She uses imagery, rhymes,
sound words, and alliteration to create a mood or feeling. We used Lynn's writing style to
create a class poem about sledding. Free Verse Poem
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