Lemonade Poem

We are using the Lucy Calkins' Units of Study for writing.  My class is working on seeing objects with their poets' eyes.  They are also listening with their poets' ears.  This is tricky - thinking about seeing things in new ways.

We are also using Amy Lemons' We are all Poets:  Poetry Pack from Teachers Pay Teachers.  We are trying to add a little fun into our day and afternoons are the most challenging for this group.  For this challenge, the students wrote about seeing lemonade with their poets' eyes.

Here is my Lemonade poem.

Lemonade
Lemonade is a yellow swimming pool of deliciousness for my tongue!
Lemonade is flower nectar in a jar.
Lemonade is full of golden slices of the sun.
Lemonade is starlight in the daytime.
And lemonade is like sipping summer through a straw.

Day 23

Our winter break challenge is to write every day in our winter writing mini-notebooks. So far, I have done pretty well. Of course, I have the incentive of posting to the Internet every day. Lots of second grade eyes will know almost immediately if I have not done my writing homework! Hopefully, there will be lots of notebooks returned on January 5th and we will be able to celebrate our writing in some fun way.

Websites with a Writing Correlation

This summer I am working on an independent study regarding how technology can be used to enhance writing in the classroom. I have found several websites. Check out the list here at http://writingsites.googlepages.com.

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