Sensory poem

A mini anchor chart for teaching sensory words, imagery, and visualization!

Hello Everyone! Well, we made it through our first week back after winter break! It was a four day week for kids, but teachers were there all five! We enjoyed some inservice time together on Monday before the kids came on Tuesday. It helps to ease into second semester a little! :) For the next few weeks in writing, we will focus on poetry. I looooove teaching poetry to our youngest writers because there isn't a wrong or right way to write poetry. At the beginning of the unit, kids don't…

Exploring the 5 senses with a poem about apple pie.

Senses poem

I’m thrilled to have Amy of Let’s Explore here as one of Make and Takes newest regular contributors. Amy will be here once a month sharing fabulous ideas for kids. Take it away, Amy… Since my girls were preschoolers, we have been writing poems together. I love seeing little snippets of their imaginations and thoughts … Continued

Anyone who has raised a boy can relate to the Dirt on My Shirt poem that I stumbled across recently. When I saw it memories of my son and my grandsons came to mind. It is like they are immune to …

Autumn sensory poem printable prompt. What a fun sensory literacy idea for fall

Last month we were been busy creating a variety of poems with our first graders. If you're looking for a quick and fun poetry lesson you'll enjoy this one! One recent poem we worked on was a 5 senses poem. We began by reading several poems out of the book below. This fabulous book contains several poems about everyday objects like pants, scissors, ice cream, spaghetti, socks, etc.. We read the poems to our first graders without showing the pictures, or reading the titles. If the object was…

Sensory Poem Example

Can the children write some similes to produce a sensory poem about Autumn? Our guided worksheet will help make it easier...