We have just finished up our cinquain poems to go with our books about sharks and dinosaurs. After reading and learning about sharks and reading about the dinosaur in a Danny and the Dinosaur book, we started examining cinquain word poems to see what we could notice about them.
I decided we would do word cinquain poems rather than cinquains based on syllables. I wrote this one and put it on the Smartboard for the students to examine. We eventually got to the place where we saw that there was one word in the first line, 2 words on the second line, 3 words in the third, and 4 in the fourth. We also noticed the line 3 words ended in ing. I also wanted them to see that the first and last line were one word titles. They thought this was all just a pretty neat set up!
After we read a few poems and got used to the way they were written, we tried our hand at writing a few in small groups.
To make it a little more manageable, the students were each given their own rough draft form to help them remember the pattern when they drafted their poems.
I am very proud of these little guys and the thoughts they came up with for their poems! These are the students’ words, I just typed them for them for time’s sake.
Lori Rosenberg says
The sharks are just so cute!
Lori ([email protected])
Teaching With Love and Laughter
Tammy says
Those are cute. Regie would be proud. "I do. We do. We do. We do. You do." It works and here's proof.
❀ Tammy
Forever in First
Erica says
I love the sharks!
Erica
Brittany Kielar says
I love the sharks. Next year during our oceans unit I definitely want to incorporate this. We are working on Cinquain poems tomorrow and love seeing what you did.
Brittany
Sweet Seconds
lorivines4 says
Thanks so much Lori!!
lorivines4 says
I agree, Tammy, it is the best way to teach. 🙂
lorivines4 says
Thank you Erica!!
lorivines4 says
I would love to see your poems, Brittany, if you post about them!
Mrs. Anderson says
Your students did an excellent job writing their cinquains. I bet they loved writing about sharks and dinosaurs!
Connie:)
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lorivines4 says
Connie, I appreciate that! They did enjoy these two subjects so much.
Michelle says
Your sharks are simply ADORABLE!!! Your students are quite the poets!
Michelle
Teach123
Mrs. M says
I love the sharks! I also liked the form you had them use for their rough draft to get them started. Great idea =)
Bobbie
The Daily Cupcake…A Kindergarten Blog
lorivines4 says
Thank you so much, Michelle! We enjoyed writing the poems and putting together the sharks. 🙂
lorivines4 says
Bobbie, the form helped them so much to remember what each line was for. It was easy to make too!
Storie says
Those sharks are to die for! Those are paper plates for teeth, right? I just found your site and started following you. Stop by and visit mine sometime 🙂
Storie
Stories by Storie
lorivines4 says
Awww, thank you Storie! I did use paper plates for the teeth. Thanks so much for stopping by and following. I am heading to your blog right now!
Joke says
In the Netherlands we call this kind of poem 'elfje' (which means 'little eleven', you can guess why :-))