Spring Poetry

To celebrate National Poetry Month, kindergarten classes created their own poems to express the arrival of spring. We talked about how poetry sometimes involves rhythm, rhyme and repetition but doesn't have to. We also discussed that poetry makes you feel something about whatever you are writing. Here are the poems we generated as a class in the three different kindergartens. We wrote them together, students illustrated,  and we practiced saying them aloud with feeling in our voices.


Spring is warm.
Spring is beautiful.
Spring is flowers.
Spring is trees.

Spring is flying birds.
Spring is flowers.
Spring is sun.
Spring is fun.






Spring is water.
Spring is flowers.
Spring is birds.
Spring is warm.

Easel.ly Infographics in 4th Grade

Students in 4th grade researched "Life as a Kid" on Culturegrams and compared it with life as a kid in the United States by filling in Venn diagrams. As a final project, students are recreating their Venn diagrams on Easel.ly, an online infographic creator. They need to include a title, two sides of the Venn diagram with headers, the middle comparison piece, at least one graphic, and a bibliography. Easel.ly infographics can then be shared electronically or printed. Stay tuned for finished products in the weeks to come.

Standards:
This project covers a slew of library Standards for the 21st Century Learner and has multiple Common Core components. Below are 2 that I specifically targeted for these lessons.
AASL Standard 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess.
CCSS W.4.8 Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.