Mrs. Glascock

Fall Senses

Fall sounds like people raking leaves.
Fall tastes like apple pie.
Fall feels like being tired from raking leaves.
Fall looks like Mom’s garden dying.
Fall smells like dry leaves.

By: Erin

Fall sounds like nuts falling.
Fall tastes like candy corn.
Fall feels like dry, itchy skin.
Fall looks like hot, juicy turkey.
Fall smells like apple dumplings.

By: Ryan

Fall sounds like nuts falling.
Fall tastes like candy corn.
Fall feels like cool wind.
Fall looks like colored leaves.
Fall smells like turkey baking.

By: Bradley

Fall sounds like leaves blowing in the air. Fall tastes like pumpkin pie.
Fall feels like leaves on the ground.
Fall looks like lots of colors.
Fall smells like turkey baking.

By: Amber

Fall sounds like a bear growling in his cave.
Fall tastes like hot turkey.
Fall feels like cool wind in my face.
Fall looks like smoke flying in the air.
Fall smells like hot, apple pie.

By: Victoria

Fall sounds like leaves crunching.
Fall tastes like candy corn.
Fall feels like cool wind.
Fall looks like pumpkins and scarecrows.
Fall smells like turkey, wood burning, corn, and pumpkin pie.

By: Donnie

Fall sounds like falling leaves.
Fall tastes like pumpkin pie.
Fall feels cool and windy.
Fall looks like turkey.
Fall smells like turkey.

By: Jackie

Fall sounds like brown leaves.
Fall tastes like pumpkin pie.
Fall feels like leaves.
Fall looks like apple trees.
Fall smells like hot apples.

By: Natasha

Fall sounds like animals crunching leaves.
Fall tastes like apple pie baking.
Fall feels like a warm fire.
Fall looks like fun.
Fall smells like pie.

By: Alison

Fall sounds like cows mooing.
Fall tastes like candy.
Fall feels dry.
Fall looks like deer.
Fall smells like turkey.

By: Chaney

Fall sounds like birds flying south.
Fall tastes like hot, juicy turkey.
Fall feels like dry skin.
Fall looks like deer.
Fall smells like pumpkin pie.

By: Ashley

Fall sounds like dry leaves crumbling under your feet.
Fall tastes like turkey boiling in the oven.
Fall feels like it feels toasty inside.
Fall looks like squirrels collecting nuts.
Fall smells like leaves burning.

By: Andrew

Fall sounds like birds.
Fall tastes like pizza.
Fall feels like a dog.
Fall looks like orange pumpkins.
Fall smells like apples.

By: Steven

Fall sounds like nuts falling.
Fall tastes like hot, juicy, sweet turkey.
Fall feels like cool wind.
Fall looks like deer.
Fall smells like wood burning.

By: Alexa

Fall sounds like leaves crunching.
Fall tastes like pumpkins.
Fall feels like wind.
Fall looks like football.
Fall smells like pies baking.

By: Brandon

Fall sounds like leaves falling.
Fall tastes like apple dumplings.
Fall feels like cool wind.
Fall looks like deer.
Fall smells like leaves burning.

By: Scott

Fall sounds like the wind blowing.
Fall tastes like pumpkins.
Fall feels chilly outside.
Fall looks like leaves changing color.
Fall smells like apple dumplings.

By: Brian

Fall sounds like birds.
Fall tastes like pie.
Fall feels like waves.
Fall looks like wind blowing leaves.
Fall smells like chicken.

By: Elizabeth

Fall sounds like leaves blowing and acorns dropping.
Fall tastes like pie with ice cream.
Fall feels like it's cool.
Fall looks like acorns dropping.
Fall smells pie and apple dumplings.

By: Eric

Fall sounds like dead leaves.
Fall tastes like a giant pan of chocolate mousse.
Fall feels like cool air.
Fall looks like colored trees.
Fall smells like pumpkin pie.

By: Evan

Fall sounds like acorns falling.
Fall tastes like chocolate cake.
Fall feels like leaves crunching.
Fall looks like red, yellow, and purple leaves.
Fall smells like hot, fat, juicy ham.

By: Kara

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Fall Senses Poetry

Prewriting

On the first day of fall we talk about fall and what they might hear, taste, see, feel, and smell in the fall.
I then give them a graphic organizer to do for homework. The assignment is for students to talk about it with their families and they are to fill out the graphic organizer by making lists for each of the senses.
On the following day, I make charts with a picture at the top for each sense like an ear for hear, a mouth with tongue for taste, an eye for see, a hand for feel, and a nose for smell. Right under the pictures I write, "Fall feels like…". They then take their graphic organizer they did for homework and as whole group activity, we verbally share things from their lists. I record them on the charts. (This also generates new ones that they hadn’t listed for homework, but they want to share and include on the charts.)

Drafting

I give them a writing paper with a fall border and they write what they want for their Fall Senses Poem.
They color the borders.

Editing and Revising

Through peer response, the students work with partners and read their poems to each other.
They use their Word Book Dictionaries to check spelling and help each other to correct any misspelled words.
Partners also tell each other what they like about each other’s poems.
Then partners help each other to try to revise anything they might think would help each other to make their poems even better.

Final Drafting

Using the program The Amazing Writing Machine, students type in their poems and use the paint feature of this program to illustrate their poem.
Finally, using The Amazing Writing Machine, we publish the children’s poems in three ways:

first - they print of their individual poems to keep

second – through the program, we print off a regular letter-sized book of class poems for our classroom library

third – through the program, we print small, quarter-fold size booklets of everyone’s poems for each student to take home.