Objective:
- To look around and be inspired to write a poem.
Group Activity:
- Define "acrostic poem". It is a poem were the first letter of each line spells out a word that is important to the meaning of the poem. There are no other rules. It doesn't have to rhyme or have the same number of words per line - there are no rules.
- Tell a sample acrostic poem:
Shovels and hoes turn the ground.
Our Earth becomes the home for a seed.
It sprouts and grows, higher it goes,
Lifting its face to the sun.
- Look at the things that we will be using for nature art (collected from the park on the way to school). Discuss how everything we will be using is organic. Glitter will also be used for the nature art - discuss how that is non-organic.
- Show some of the caterpillars and chrysalis that we found the week before.
Garden Activity:
- Start off by examining the jars with the caterpillars that we found the week before. This included a jar with a caterpillar and jar with a chrysalis.
- Ask the kids for observations about the caterpillars. Ask them why the chrysalis looks pointy. Ask them to observe how the caterpillar is the same color of the leaf and ask them to talk about why they think that is.
- Then go to the garden. This week we thinned out the radishes and look for more caterpillars on the broccoli.
- Then each group had one person who could water their plantings.
Table 1:
- In this table they wrote a poem. They used the attached worksheet as a guideline.
- The teacher assisted with this table and she encouraged them to write at least two words per line.
Table 2:
- At this table the kids glued things from nature onto a piece of paper. Things such as leaves, bark, grass, flower petals.
- There was a sample picture at this table for the kids to look at.
Table 3:
- At this table the kids added glitter to their pictures to make it a little fancy.
Enjoy!
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