4K’s participation in the Autumn Across America project is part of a  larger unit on writing poetry this fall. The focus of the unit had  three parts: to practice using descriptive words and phrases in  writing, to include personal voice in writing, and to learn about  many different types of poems.

     After reading Fall is here! We love it! by Elaine Good and The 
Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown, the class talked about the way 
the authors used descriptive writing in order to create interesting 
pictures in their readers’ minds.

     The class brainstormed a list of descriptive words and phrases about 
fall in small groups then shared their ideas with the class. The 
whole class worked together to create a poem in which they described 
why fourth graders enjoy the season of fall here in Whitefish Bay, WI.

     This year in 4K, students are reading poems each week from their 
poetry binders to practice fluency, so they had a good idea about the 
many different types of poetry. In addition, they were also given 
samples of several types of poetry from Memaw’s Creative Writing 
Corner and had several weeks to experiment writing a  variety of poems in their writing notebooks.

     After a discussion about poetry and fall poems, students took several 
class periods to create, revise, edit, and “polish” their individual  fall poems. Fourth graders worked with peer editors to make their  poems the best that they could be!

     We hope you enjoy reading our class poem and our individual poems 
about autumn on our class blog