For the month of December, we are studying poetry in Reading and Writing. Our class has really enjoyed exploring this genre and experimenting with different forms of poetry. Using what we have read as inspiration, the class created color poems using descriptive and sensory words. They then wrote their poems on paint chips to decorate our "Poetree!"
This week, our class did a wonderful teamwork activity! Each student was given a notecard with the name of another student on it. They wrote a word that they associated with that peer. The notecards were then passed around, so everyone go to write on all the notecards.
We then created Word Splashes using the website Tagxedo. The class entered in the words (once for each time it occurred on their card...this caused that word to be larger than others on the Word Splash), chose the colors, layout, etc., and ended with some beautiful artwork!
It was really nice seeing what everyone wrote and how we all value each other for different things. We are very lucky to have such a wonderful class!
