Social studies and National Poetry Month

Any ideas on how to integrate the two for K-2?



Thanks

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Social Studies can be anything - geography, culture, American nationalism (which is what I think the Kindergarten state curriculum guide suggests), history. Maybe poems from around the world? Or poems about the USA and the flag? Red, White and Blue? A poem about their town (incorporating map skills with a map of their town)? HTH - just some ideas!

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If I read them a peom, can you suggest an activity?

Thanks for the ideas!

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community poems - like betsy franco - or even ogden nash?


you can cut the poem into strips and then have them look at a copy of the poem and have them paste it together.

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I know for first grade, we are doing map skills for april. so you can have them create maps for let's say the lunchroom or the classroom, then write a poem about that room.

IE:

Lunch is where you go to eat
My mom packs me a very good treat
Brian has an apple, Sarah has grapes
But the lunch lady looks like a big furry ape,
So I don't want to eat in the lunchroom today,
I guess I'll do something naughty to eat with Principal McCrae.

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My first graders are on a second grade level and I'll be honest, some of them blow me away with poetry. You can do an alphabet poem based on a location or using map words.

example

Nobody lives far up north
only because it's too cold
really cold if you think about it
that is why I live
here in the United States

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You can make it an interactive display. They can draw maps and on another piece of paper (with cool borders to color) they can write poems about the place and see if people can guess the place based upon the poem.

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What a great idea! Thanks!


Would you suggest build a map in groups or individual?

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That's a good question...it would depend on how your class works. Personally, I would make it an individual thing but that's b/c my class is chatty and would not produce what I want b/c they'd be too busy chatting.