Plants and poetry

April is national poetry month! Our class is learning all about how to see the world like a poet. We read some poems from the book Color me a poem and R is for rhyme an alphabet poetry collection. Color me a poem is all about nature! The author beautifully describes photographs that are taken of different colors found in nature.

Since we are learning about plants in science we decided to write poems about flowers! First we painting our flowers to resemble Eric Carle's illustrations in his book The Tiny Seed. Then we cut out stems and leaves. We wrote our plant poems on the leaves. While kids were working on their poems I was calling them to the back to plant a seed of their own.