Charles' Cinquain Poem Completed on the 6th of March
In school (located in NYC), Charles’ classmates learned about cinquain poems this week and created their own. Even though our ‘classroom’ is being held in Paris for the next 10 days, we learned about these five lined poems as well. There are technically are 3 versions of cinquain poems, but we only focused on two of them:
#1
Line 1: One Word
Line 2: Two Words
Line 3: Three Words
Line 4: Four Words
Line 5: One Word
#2
Line 1: A Noun
Line 2: Two Adjectives
Line 3: Three ‘-ing’ Words
Line 4: A Phrase
Line 5: Another Word for the Noun
As Charles’ travel teacher, I try to incorporate location-inspired material and themes with Charles’ classroom curriculum. This lesson was easily adapted to our travel experience, since the content of the poem was up to the writer. We simply inserted the travel theme. During lunch, we brain-stormed some ideas and came up with our first poem together. Of course, food was the topic and Laduree macaroons were our inspiration.
Macaroons
J’adore you
chocolate, pistachio, caramel
Come to my mouth
Laduree
2 days later, 3 poems, a rough draft and an illustrated final draft, Charles came up with his own cinquain poem about travel. If you are having trouble reading the photo above, this is Charles’ poem completed on March 6, 2011:
Travel
fun, adventure
exciting, flying, learning
in the forest, city or log cabin
Planet Earth
Simply put, I love what I do.
For your viewing pleasure....the infamous Laduree Macaroons
Today was Charles’ first day of summer school here in Paris. He was excited about all of the new materials I bought and was full of questions about what we were going to learn on this trip. Adorable. I have such lofty ideas for this summer! And I am thrilled he is as excited as I am. Most importantly, he will be reading at 2nd grade level by the end of July! Bon été!
