Colorful Spring!
 A Collaborative Internet Literacy Project   Spring 2007

Mrs. Sara Zimmerman's 1st Grade
Stewarts Creek Elementary School
Smyrna,
Tennessee
Class Website

During our Colorful Spring unit we decided to cover not only Spring, but also different forms of Poetry. We learned about and wrote, as a class and individually, four different kinds of poems: 4-Line, Five Senses, Acrostic, and Cinquain.

We mostly liked the 4-Line and Acrostic poems best! Along with this we read lots of books related to spring. We voted on our class favorite and Wake Up, It's Spring! by Lisa Campbell Ernst won by a long shot! Mrs. Z thinks it's our favorite because we liked the repeated shouting of "...and the _____ woke up!" best.
 

Our class' first two poems were 4-Line poems written together. Before writing them, we made a large web in the shape of a tree that is blooming and wrote everything we could think of that had to do with Spring on it. We wrote things we see, smell, hear, taste, touch, like, and dislike during Springtime. This was hard at first, but after thinking about all our stories and taking a Spring Walk on the playground it became easier!! It wound up being a lot of fun and really helped get our brains going to write our poems.

Below are our two class poems written together:

 

Red
Robins
Sing
Spring is Pretty!

 

Purple
Flowers
Grow
Spring is Beautiful!

 

Tennessee Language Arts Standards
1.2.02 a. write to acquire/exhibit knowledge
1.2.02 b. write to entertain
1.2.03 c. use descriptive words when writing
1.2.04 d. create readable documents with legible handwriting
1.2.06 a. prepare a variety of written work
1.2.06 c. share completed work
1.2.06 d. create individual/class books
1.2.11 d. write rhymes and poems
1.3.01 d. use adjectives appropriately

 

Tennessee Technology Standards
1.1.1 a Identify computer as a machine that helps people work and play
1.4.1 use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences

 

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