Vegetable Sensory Poems

We have been learning about sensory details in poetry to enhance our writing. So, to get the kids interested I used food as an example! To model I wrote a poem about a vegetable I cannot stand, beets! Then we wrote a poem as a class about a vegetable we all love, corn. Then I let the kids loose to write their own sensory poems. Here are their final products. Some are super cute.

Class pets-tad poles!

It's that time of year to learn about life cycles, and this year we received tad poles in the mail! I surprised the kiddos and their reactions were of amazement and disgust! It was so funny!!! I'm happy these kids get to experience a "pet." We will be watching their transformation with excitement! One already has legs!

100th day fun!

We had our 100th day a few days ago and we had fun counting to 100 in all kinds of ways, writing 100 words, using fun manipulatives to count to 100, and drawing 100 items.

Tacky fun!

Every winter (January) I normally do a unit on penguins and read Helen Lester's picture books Tacky the Penguin. The kids LOVE Tacky and have so much fun laughing and laughing at his shenanigans. It helps the kids appreciate "different" people and opinions. It also helps them to think out of the box and feel safe to take risks in my class. Planet Earth has a great section of one of its episodes about emperor penguins. We made our own "Tacky" penguins that they named and they got to "play" and act out the Tacky stories with the other penguins. Here is a class picture of our penguins!