Objectives:
to teach children about their local habitat and encourage them to use their sensory experience of place as material for writing poems
Genre:
Poetry
Format:
Lesson Plan
Time Frame:
20-25 minutes
Required Materials:
boom box, music, copies of the poems you use (to paste into their books), glue sticks, books that identify fauna and flora in your area; Optional: paint, markers, crayons
Literary model:
William Stafford, Robert Louis Stevenson, Myra Cohn Livingston
