More pic lits... I love their work... clever poets!

Mary's - I so agree with your poem on reading!

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Some students have been continuing to work on poetry at home and have created beautiful and clever work! Mary, especially, has taken time to write a free verse and quite a few others. So please, head to our pic lit page and share your thoughts.

Here are samples of the more recent work by Mary and Kate!

Kate captured the danger & fear in the circle of life!

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I found this piclit by another author and thought..."How cleaver and how true!"


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Poetry and homework for Wendesday, April 20th

This author captured the moment...to view click on the PicLit

Today we learned about Laterne Poems and the format for Quatrain poems.
You can see all of our piclits.com by clicking here....you have to click on the pictures so they display large enough to see the Laterne Poems.


For Laterne poems, we headed to the computer lab and used 'www.piclits.com' to look for inspiration.  Once we found the 'right' picture, students created a Laterne Poem around the image, typing their verse in and saving them under our classroom account.


Please note... not all students were able to access www.piclits.com in a timely manner.  The images are beautiful and of high quality which caused the loading times to increase.  Students do not have to complete their piclits at home.  However, they are welcome to explore the site and create some new ones or complete the class assignment if they like.  Some students expressed an interest in using the pictures to publish their Haiku's or Tanka.  As long as you approve at home, they are welcome to sign on and save their work so I can see it.

This one was designed at home! WOW!

Tomorrow, students will have homework!  They should write a Quatrain poem 'inspired' by their field trip to Fort Christmas!  If you have questions about the format of a Quatrain, you can find more information under our classroom webpage: www.earthspaceexplorers.com  - under 'Current Assignments".

Cheers, Mrs. T


I will edit this post tonight and add some piclits that students designed.

First day!!!! It was so nice to meet you and clues to upcoming project

Hello 4th grade,

It was a joy to meet you all today!  We went right to work on our poem project handed over by Mrs. Johnson and added a discussion on 'inspiration.'  To help find inspiration, we spent some time in our school's beautiful garden area looking for ideas for our Tanka poems.  We also looked deeper at the 'rules' for Two Word Poems and Haiku's.  You can find information on the 7 poem formats we will be working with on our class webnpage under assignments.

Tomorrow we will continue on with Lanterne and Quatrain poems using pictures from a website called www.piclits.com for inspiration.   

Wednesday we have a field trip...so if you have not turned in your permission forms, please do tomorrow. We want you to attend!  We shall be heading back to the early pioneer days and experiencing life without all the amazing technology we have now.

I shared our project idea with one session today and if you have time, I hope you will look into the following 'keywords' as clues to what I would like our classes to explore.

Cupcake Wars
juvenile diabetes
gluten-free
vegan

Tomorrow we will try to publish some of our poems on our blog!

Hope you have a good Monday! 

Cheers,
Mrs. T

Our PicLits - reflections and studies of our vocabulary words #1

Here are just some of our PicLits.  They are word studies of our vocabulary.  The instructions were to find a pics that captured the essence of the word's definition.  I was truly impressed by the quality of work and thoughtfulness of the picture choices.  I will post the rest tomorrow.  Well done!

We did it! We did it! PicLits....

The idea came from Philly Teacher - a blog that is filled with innovative and easy to implement ideas for teachers.




The assignment fell under our word study...we looked at our vocabulary word and considered how
they might be used to create 'effect' in our speaking and writing.  Students had to find the definition, select a Pic that they felt conveyed the word's 'essence'.  Then they choose other words that reflected the 'effect' the word might have when used in their writing - or the effect going on in the writing when the word was being used.  This problem will be a regular occurrence in our class.  It fit very well, time and independence wise, into our literacy centers

6th - He really soared I thought!




 Here is what two of them did...completely on their own. I am SOOO excited to use this more!
This was found on PhillyTeacher... excellent resource.

2nd grade - my son.  He did this quickly...not bad!

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More PicLits as of October 8.

http://classroomofstars.blogspot.com/2010/10/our-piclits-reflections-and-studies-of.html