The Colour Poem Global Twitter Project #2 (Week 1) RED poems with Grade 2

We have joined the Colour poem Global project started by Linda Yollis.  The Grade 2s did Red Poems today. What I love about Global projects like these is that the students also enjoy them and participate fully.

Skills learned
We used PowerPoint and I we learned the following skills:

• Writing a poem in a triangle shape
• Adding a triangle shape to the poem and sending it to the back
• Formatting the shape and selecting red
• Using Google Images to find a red image

Creating the poem
I brought a number of red items to school and we took turns, on the mat, examining them and trying to describe them. We chose six of them to write about and had to keep to the triangle shape to write the poem. Once the poem was written we selected a triangle shape and place it over the poem. We sent it to the back.

Examples
Here are some examples:

Evaluation
Not everybody finished in time, but the class enjoyed the lesson.