Here is my “nature” walk poem from yesterday. We all pretty much wrote poems that mentioned the “Earth” because my friends are talking about Earth Day with their classroom teacher. Happy Poetry Friday
The Sun by Marie
Glowing
ball of fire
shining
down on Earth
warming us
with her
outreaching arms
of light.
Posts Tagged ‘nature walk’
Day # 7…Poetry Challenge
Posted in poetry, writers notebook, writing, tagged nature walk, poems, poetry walk, writing on April 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Nature Walk
Posted in poetry, writers notebook, writing, tagged nature walk, poetry, writers notebook, writing, writing workshop on April 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
YEAH! …we got to go on the nature walk…or should I say nature writing walk? My friends were so excited. Our mini-lesson was about poets observing the world around them…they take notes, or sketch what they see and then they write poems about the “seeds” they found. I have done this a lot with my [...]
Day #6…Poetry Challenge
Posted in poetry, writers notebook, writing, tagged nature walk, poetry, poets, writers notebook, writing on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today our focus in writing will be that poets observe the world around them. They write poems about things in nature. I wrote this poem yesterday morning in my notebook. I am going to use it as part of my mini-lesson today. Hopefully it will be warm up enough for my first grade poets to [...]
Day #1…Poetry Challenge
Posted in poetry, writers notebook, writing, tagged nature walk, poetry, poetry challenge, poetry month, sketching, writers notebook, writing on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This morning my two boys and I went on a nature walk on the path in the woods by our house. We took our writer’s notebooks…yes my boys also have writer’s notebooks…and we were sketching and writing as we walked. I sat for about 20 minutes sketching a wonderfully beautiful…majestically tall tree. I believe it [...]
