We Use Objects to Write Poetry

In our next Poetry lesson we began to learn about some different ways to describe objects. We began by naming some objects in the room and here's a few that we came up with:

     The earth is as blue as blue marble (Neil). The smart board is as white as fog (G.K.). The safety box is as red as a rose (Jen). The door is as brown as a bear (Angela). The doors are as squeaky as a toy rubber duck (Matthias). 

We also worked on describing words (adjectives) to describe a variety of different kinds of apples, what they smell, taste and look like. Some of us smelled the apples and some of us tasted them too! We each had our own apple to work with.

We came up with a variety of different words: Sour, sweet, delicious, spicy, great, terrible, yummy, fruity, cold, smooth, rubbery,  crunchy, juicy, roundish, soft, red, green, spotted, bumpy, rough and cinnamon. 

The next day we looked at unusual objects that we hadn't seen before and used our imaginations to come up with playful, sometimes even silly ways to describe them.  A wooden spaghetti measurer was like an "oar with holes" and "Grandpa's fly swatter".  A crystal looked like "whales coming out of the ocean", "sparkly continent rock" and a "rocket rock".

We brainstormed together as a group to start and wrote about 4 different objects in our journals. 

Then we did observational drawings of the objects we had written about!