Poetry Writing

Creating Mental Images

Our first individual published piece of poetry!

Way to go Emily!

Pizza Pizza

by Ms. Guy's and Ms. Woodard's First Grade Class

Pizza, Pizza

I LOVE pizza

pepperoni, sausage

cheese and pickle

I LOVE pizza

hot pizza, cold pizza

LET'S

GO

GET

SOME!

We have been reading poetry written by first graders JUST LIKE US!

We notice that not all poems have to rhyme.  We notice that the poet puts the words on the paper in special ways.  We have also noticed that it should sound good (have rhythm) when it is read! We notice that our word choice must be extra special so that the reader can create a mental image! Did you know that text plus our schema equals our mental image.  We are finding out that sometimes our schema doesn't match what the author had in mind.  Next week we will talk more about going back and adjusting so that we BETTER understand what we are reading! So...it is extra important to chose JUST THE RIGHT WORDS!

We are off to a GREAT start.  

We are using non standard tools to measure the length of things!  Today was so much fun...we estimated how long we thought our arm, leg, hand, paper and other things were in unifix cubes, beans, chain links and such!!!  Boy do we have some AMAZING estimators...

PHONE BOOK RECYCLE PROJECT
Help us collect a RECORD number of phone books!

Start sending them in...You know you want to get rid of them!!!

IT IS TIME TO START THINKING....

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Robertson Elem. Boosterthon
Last year this was an AMAZING fund raiser for Robertson and TONS OF FUN! 
LET'S MAKE THIS YEAR EVEN BETTER!!
We need to start brainstorming our CLASS NAME!