Last Week

Had a good week: Kylie came to visit!

The first prompt I gave the kids for their nature journals was to focus on something in nature and find a way to connect it to their lives.

The second day they had to sketch and journal about something beautiful and something ugly.
The third day we went for a long walk and settled at a park. They had to find one thing and make a list of anything else that is the same color. Then they had to write a poem using as many of those color words as possible.

The fourth day found us walking down a snowmobile trail. Once we found a place to write, they had to pick something and tell what it looked, smelled, tasted, felt, and sounded like. then let that lead into a poem.

On the fifth day, they had to write an acrostic poem using the letters of their name. I used my maiden name, for a change since I've done this many time before with my poetry kids. They had to find a connection between nature and their own lives.

On the last day, we climbed quite a ways up a mountain before finding a place to sit and write about endings in nature and endings in their lives.