Ms. Burrell's First Grade Class

We read the book Winter Lullaby. It was written by Barbara Seuling and illustrated by Greg Newbold. Winter Lullaby is a beautiful book that showed us what some animals do in the cold winter. We especially enjoyed the beautiful illustrations! We worked together and wrote 5W poems to tell about the animals in the book. A 5W poem answers the questions “Who?,What?, When?, Where? and Why?” Here is the format we followed to write our poems. Line 1: Who or what is the poem about Line 2: What action is happening? Line 3: When does the action take place? Line 4: Where does the action take place? Line 5: Why does this action happen?
Bats Bats Hang upside down In winter In a cavern Because they’re hibernating.	Mice Mice Sleep in hay In winter In the barn Because it’s too cold outside.
Snakes Snakes Curl up In winter In a den Because they’re cold.	Fish Fish Go to the bottom of the water When it’s icy In the lake Because it’s too cold on top.
Bees Bees Stay in their hive In winter In a hollow tree Because the flowers are covered with snow.	Ducks Ducks Fly south When winter comes Up in the sky Because they can’t find food.
We also talked about what WE did in the winter. We decided to make our own pages to tell about things that we liked to do when it snows. We used rhyming words like Barbara Seuling did in Winter Lullaby. We did our illustrations in KidPix Deluxe 3. When the snow covers the ground, do the children of Dahlgren go?






DoDEA Standards met by this project. Educational Technology Standards Students will: · Use technological tools for learning, communications, and productivity. · Participate in a telecollaborative project. Language Arts/ Reading Standards Students will: · Use literature as a springboard to writing. · Engage in a group writing project. · Make connections to personal experiences or between other pieces of literature. · Interpret plays, poems and stories through discussion or some form of art.