The Colour Poem Global Twitter Project #5 (Week 5): BLUE poems with Grade 2

We have joined the Colour poem Global project started by Linda Yollis http://goo.gl/YtbFkg.   The Grade 2s did BLUE Poems today. The Grade 2s were excited about doing blue poems. They are enjoying this global project.

Skills learned

We used PowerPoint and I we learned the following skills:

• Using commas between words and leave a space after a comma
• Centring the words to make it look like a poem
• Using Google Images to find images
• Formatting the background and selecting a matching colour

Creating the poem
We had a little revision lesson on nouns (naming words), verbs (doing words) and adjectives (describing words) first on the mat. I could see their teacher had been through this with them. First we thought of blue things that we love (nouns). Then we tried to describe them using adjectives. We talked about that those things they had chosen can do (verbs). We ended with a noun.  These came out in a diamond shape.  Here is the format:

Noun

Adjective, Adjective

Verb, Verb, Verb

Noun

Examples

My evaluation of the lesson
The class enjoyed the lesson and I enjoyed the lesson as well.  I was pleased to see how they had caught on about nouns, verbs and adjectives.