Writing through the seasons!

In science we are learning about the weather and in writing we are writing about it and the seasons with poetry! Our first poem style was the cinquain. After brainstorming nouns, adjectives, and gerunds for each season students wrote about Fall. The class then honed their keyboarding and collaborating skills on the Chromebooks when they typed up their poems and shared them via GoogleDocs with me. Finally, students took their publication to the illustration stage. We used leaf shapes and colored pastel chalk to add beauty to our poems!

As you can see, together their poems make an impressive and beautiful display!

Our next poetry style was acrostic. Students wrote acrostic poems for Winter. Look for pictures soon!
Currently, students are in the process of creating diamante antonym poems with the seasons as their topic. Students brainstormed word banks for related nouns, adjectives, and verbs (not just gerunds). Many students have already taken their first diamante poems to the publishing stage. By next week, all students should have them in the illustration stage. We will illustrate with winter themed shapes and colored chalk pastels.