By Lee Bennett Hopkins
Tuesday/Tornado-day
Wednesday/Windy-day
Thursday/Thunder-day
Friday/Foggy-day
Saturday/Soggy-day
Sunday
At last!
SUN
day.
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| Introduction: For very young students- have students say the days of the week and then read the following poem. | ||||||||||||
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| A Week of Weather By Lee Bennett Hopkins |
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| Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Weather: poems for all seasons. HarperCollins: New York. 1994. | ||||||||||||
| Monday/Muggy-day Tuesday/Tornado-day Wednesday/Windy-day Thursday/Thunder-day Friday/Foggy-day Saturday/Soggy-day Sunday At last! SUN day. |
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| Extension: Talk about the poem- what makes the two words similiar- for example- Wednesday/Windy-day, Saturday/Soggy-day. Read the poem again and have the students make up their own poems using the days of week. Have them create illustrations with paints. | ||||||||||||