Snowballs, ice skating, sledding Frozen toes, icy slush, runny nose. Well, winter's not all fun and games. But well-loved, best-selling poet Dougl...
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Sep 22, 2011
Kelly
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Winter Eyes is an educational book that can be for all elementary students. It is a book of winter poems that uses senses. Feeling the chill of winter, seeing white, hearing wind, and it also teaches about the differece of hot and cold. Hot being summer and cold is winter. It is an informational book that can be used for teaching the season, while incorporating poetry. Also, it can be used when talking about senses.
Jan 09, 2011
Ellen
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My favorite collection of winter poems. Before we read the poems "What I love about winter" and "What I hate about winter", I have students think of things that they associate with winter and sort these into two lists: good things and bad things.
Oct 12, 2011
Lisa
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This collection is awesome! I'd love to share this with a classroom in the wintertime. There are two fun shaped poems, one about sledding and one about snowflakes, and a cute very short concrete poem about ice skating. "Winter Time" sums up the seasons in a brief but effective poem. The metaphors in "Icicles" are memorable. I love how in "The Winter Tree" the tree dreams of animals, children, picnics, and "leaves and leaves and leaves and leaves." Ev
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Jan 27, 2012
Kate
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I loved these poems that celebrate (and hate) winter. Some fun, some lovely and some really funny.
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Waller
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Playful poems on the experience of winter - a somewhat rural, nostalgic view of winter in the north (possibly Canada or Minnesota?).
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