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Greeting
From Ponton’s Pond!
For Frosty Readers 2002, we read the book When It Starts to Snow
by Phillis Gershator. It tells about what animals do when it gets really
cold outside. After reading and enjoying the book these are the things
we did:
First, we made a list of the words in
the story that rhyme with snow.
We discovered:
*not all words that end in -ow rhyme with snow
*not all words that rhyme with snow end in -ow
Here are the words we found that rhyme with snow!
| low |
row |
go |
| slow |
crow |
hoe |
| blow |
grow |
toe |
| flow |
sparrow |
know |
| below |
window |
glow |
Next, we discussed and listed
each animal in the story and noted
what they did when it started to snow.
The children worked individually or in
pairs to write
about an animal, using the pattern from the story and a 5 W’s Poem.
They had the task of researching what their animal does
in the winter. They discovered that some animals sleep for most of the
the winter (hibernate), some go south where it is warm (migrate) and
others just stick it out in the snow! We hope you enjoy our writing and
illustrations.
"I like to dig
down deep
in the mud and keep
warm", says the frog,
“when it starts to
snow that's where
I go" |
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Frogs
sleep
in the mud
in a lake
it's winter.
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"I will build a
lodge
in the water out of
sticks", says the beaver.
"It will keep me warm
all winter." |
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Beaver
uses sticks
to make a dam
in the fall
on the lake
to sleep in all winter. |
"I stay where it
is
warm. I go in the barn and wait until spring",
says the horse. "That's
where I stay when it
starts to snow." |
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Horse
keeps warm
in the barn
when it snows
because it is cold outside. |
"I will find a
nice
hole in the ground,
when it starts to snow",
says snake.
"I don't like it cold!" |
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Snake
sleeps
in a hole
underground
because it's too cold for snakes. |
"I stay in the
mud all winter",
says the turtle.
"I'm a reptile and
reptiles don't like it cold." |
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Turtle
sleeps
in the mud
all winter
because they are reptiles. |
"I will stay
warm
in my den made
of rocks", says the fox.
"I will come out when
it gets warm again." |
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Red Fox
stays warm
in a den
with his family
because it is snowing. |
"I cuddle in my
cocoon", says butterfly.
"I will come out
in the spring
when it gets warm." |
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Butterfly
cuddles
in a cocoon
in a bush
in winter
waiting for spring. |
"I will hunt for
food",
says the wolf. "I will
live in my den and
feed my cubs. I don't
need to sleep all winter." |
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Wolf
keeps warm
in a den
in the forest
because that's what wolves do. |
"I will fly
south,"
says the robin. "I migrate when it starts to snow." |
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Robin
flies south
for the winter
to Florida
because they will freeze. |
Florida State Standards
READING:
L.A.A.1.1.2 The student recognizes and orally produces combination sounds;
diphthongs, and digraphs.
L.A.A.1.1.4 The student recalls and retells details and events using key
vocabulary.
L.A.A.2.1.1 The student determines main idea or essential message and
identifies supporting information.
LITERATURE:
L.A.E.2.1.1 Students uses personal perspective in responding to a work of
literature such as relating characters and simple events in a story to
people or events in their own life.
WRITING:
L.A.B.1.1.1. The student refines previously learned knowledge and skills
L.A.B.2.1.2 The student refines previously learned knowledge and skills of
basic writing with increasingly
complex assignments and tasks.
L.A.B.2.1.4 The student names and recognizes punctuation (quotation
marks).
SCIENCE:
F.1.1.4.1 The student knows that animals have adaptations that help them
survive in their environments.
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