We read the 1999 Caldecott Award winning book Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. We learned that Wilson Bentley was an amazing man full of patience and questions. After we read the book, we wrote a class poem about him.

Read the individual poems written by our students on our Snowflake Bentley webpage.

1. We learned that “SNOWFLAKE” is a compound word. We looked in the book and found other compound words. We then used Kidspiration to separate the words.
2. The book Snowflake Bentley served as a starting point for our biography unit. We are learning how to write and display biographical information about important people. See examples of biography projects from past years.

SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY
The important thing about Snowflake Bentley is that he was a very patient man.
He was born on February 9, 1865 in Jericho, Vermont.
He loved snowflakes more than anything else.
Snowflake Bentley discovered that no two snowflakes are the same.
He had a camera that had a special microscope on it.
He was the first person to take pictures of snowflakes.
Bentley studied and photographed snowflakes every winter.
He never quit when his experiments didn’t work.
He was a Scientist of snow.
He also loved playing the piano and singing songs.
He published a book with pictures of snowflakes.
But the important thing about Snowflake Bentley is that he was a very patient man.
 

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