Poetry: First Grade Unit Study

Our first unit study this school year was poetry. I chose this to work on June bug's creative writing and handwriting skills. We have a 3 day week for 6 weeks of unit studies. We read poems everyday but I might not have marked down which ones were read. We used this coloring book from Rainbow Resource for our unit along with bunches of books from the library.

First week

I Am poems and  working on similes

Day 1

What is a poem

I am picture 

Brain pop video on poetry

Read poetry books

Day 2

I am poem

Brain pop video similes 

Read poetry books

Day 3

Five senses poem

Read and memorize Purple cow by Gelett Burgess

Paint sample poem 

Second week

Rhyming poems and working on rhymes

Day 1

Rhyming video 

Rhyming workbook

Day 2

Write a poem and draw a picture about the poem

Type the poem on the computer and print it out

Day 3

Read poems and color picture that goes along with it

Emily Dickinson The Bird

Third week 

List poems

Day 1

Read Sick by Silverstien

Write 3 list poems

Day 2

Read list poem work sheet

Write 2 list poems

Day 3

Write 2 list poems

Forth week 

Shape poems 

Day 1

Look at different types of shape poems on the computer

Heart shape poem, write in the shape

Day 2

Animal shape poems. June bug chose to do a  Goose rhyming poem inside the shape

Day 3

Butterfly perimeter writing

Read and memorized Clouds by Christina Rossetti 

Fifth Week 

Acrostic Poems(first letter makes a word for a name) 

Day 1

Family names random words except her name. She had to find words that describe herself. 

Day 2 

Place poems. Beach and camps. We used pictures of the beach and camping to help her figure out words that go along with the place. 

Day 3

Her choice Acrostic poem. Surprise, surprise she chose B.I.R.D.S. We looked at her birds of central Florida reference pamphlet   to help her find and spell bird species names. June bug loves birds so much she chose to have her birthday party at the Audubon Birds of Prey center.  

Sixth week

Free verse

Day 1
Finally June Bug could write how and about anything she wanted! She had been wanting to do this from the first week. But what I loved about this day was she knew the poem needed a title, lines, a subject, and her name at the bottom. 

Day 2
Write whatever you want

Day 3
Last poem of the unit.