Grade 1 Wockets - Room 105

I like to have the kids create pages for our own version of mentor texts; they copy the structure of the model and add original words and illustrations. The latest edition of Dr. Seuss' There's a Wocket in My Pocket (Continued) by first graders is now available for checkout! You can preview Room 105's pages below:

Telling Fibs in Room 207

Fibonacci, a mathematician who lived during the 1200s, developed a number sequence named after him. Each number is added to the previous number to get the next number: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 and so on. 

Author Greg Pincus invented the “Fib” form of poetry, in which each consecutive line has the same number of syllables that appear in the Fibonacci sequence. We wrote some together to practice. For example: 

Forest Walk

Trees,

snails,

tree stump,

ant, anthill,

bugs, apple trees, squir-

rels, mushrooms, bees, hornets, snakes,

beehive. We are at a forest right now. Plants, leaves, flies.

Then the students wrote their own. Here are some of their creations:

a

seed

a sprout

then seedling

and a sapling too

a young tree and last a big tree

- I.S.

bees

sting

that hurts

I say ow

when bees sting I cry

but bees make honey that is yum!

- N.D.

I

have

hiccups.

They are ann-

oying in many

different ways. I hate hiccups!

- A.Z.

Sum-

mer

it's hot

swim in pool

play tag with my friends

and have fun go to parties fun!

- S.C.

Vroom

vroom

it is

it is a

it is a car ah

ah oof ow help oof oof oof oof

- R.K.

Doctor/Surgeon

heart

heart

blood stream

heart pumping

heart heart heart heart heart

saving people's lives is good good

-C.Z.

hi

it 

is me

at school hav-

ing a good time with

my friends at school me at school hi!

- G.R.

sum-

mer

vaca-

tion I like

to swim in the sum-

mer and play water balloon fights

with

my 

family

and set up

a pool and bounce house.

- D.M.

ice

cream

is so

good so good

really really good

really really really good good

- J.A.

1

1

22

333

55555

88888888

- L.G.

Blackout Poetry with Grades 4 and 5

Have you ever heard of blackout poetry? It is a form of "found" poetry, where you select words from a written text to create something new. To celebrate National Poetry Month, students in 4th and 5th grade went through discarded library books to choose words and then added images to illustrate them. Finally, they gave credit to their sources. 

I've posted some of their creations as images below; you can see more by opening these Google Slide links: 

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Grade 1 Wockets - Room 103

I like to have the kids create pages for our own version of mentor texts; they copy the structure of the model and add original words and illustrations. The latest edition of Dr. Seuss' There's a Wocket in My Pocket (Continued) by first graders is now available for checkout! You can preview Room 103's pages below: