Our class began the project by reading 'Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory' by Margaret and H.A. Rey. After reading the book we passed around M&M's and the children thought of as many words as they could to describe chocolate which we listed on the board. We also made a list of verbs to describe the act of eating the chocolate which we also listed on the board.

Once the lists were complete I described the activity in which children would write a cinquain about chocolate. I provided the following frame:

Chocolate, chocolate
(verb+ing), (verb+ing)
Chocolate!
(adjective), (adjective), (adjective)
(Write your own sentence about chocolate)

The class did a terrific job! Here is a sampling of a few of the poems the children composed: