This is a fun template for your students to create a personal freeverse poem about themselves. It's beautiful displayed and impressive how simple it is for your students to write poetry!
This is a mixture of an art project I found on Pinterest and a writing activity that i read in a book. Used it with my 3rd graders last year and it was AMAZING! This is a great way to combine art with writing interesting paragraphs.
This is a 4 day project:
Day 1 - Creating the Snowman
Day 2 - Decorating the Snowman
Day 3 - Writing descriptive details
Day 4 - Putting descriptions into sentences and forming a paragraph.
Once the project is done, these will hang in the room or the hallway. St
2nd - 4th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Other (Arts)
Paired Texts: What Do You Do With An Idea & My Brother Martin. Comparing Martin Luther King's ambition to change the world with ideas of students is a compelling project that will help concrete the concept of setting goals and working towards success in the minds of your students.
After teaching my students arrays, repeated subtraction, reverse skip counting, and equal grouping - this made a great review for them to find the missing divisor.
This is a poem I wrote on a whim, to the lyrical rhythm of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly". I wanted something for the transition from October to November!
I'm planning to use this in my class to create imagery, introduce new vocabulary, and just have some fun!