FIAR: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening written by Robert Frost (Illustrated by Susan Jeffers)

Go-Alongs

Other Robert Frost Poems

Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit by Il Sung Na

Coloring a Woods Setting

We talked about the woods and the type of animals we could find there. We filled out the homeschool share lapbook piece for all the Animals in the Story.

We flipped through our book and talked about all the different animals the illustrator included. I then had Lexie color a woodsy scene.

Animal Tracks

I printed off the animal track matching cards (which I cannot find from where) for Alexa to do, she struggled with this, so we mostly did it together.

It was a fun little exercise for us.

Painting a Snow Picture

I had Lexa use white paint to make snow pictures, but inevitably if you give this girl a piece of paper, paint and time, she literally paints the ENTIRE page :) So, she painted a blizzard, it’s still fun!  T is for Trees

We focused on the letter T this week, she did Confessions of a Homeschooler’s T do-a-dot page

…. and practiced writing the letter T

Snowflake Craft

I had Lexie paint some popsicle sticks white

which we then assembled into snowflakes, after they dried

  

Color Matching

Alexa is always asking for “more, more, more” so she’s always doing more than what I am able to post on. This week she rediscovered her color paintbrush matching folder game.

Teaching Poetry

This was really the kids and I first in-depth look at a poem. We’ve read a few poems here and there, but never spend much time on them. I used this week to have the kids read and write some of their own poetry.

From Let’s Explore, I got the idea to have the kids write their on “five sense poem”.

Treyton wrote “Baseball”

I see bases

I feel a bat

I taste a win

I hear people shouting

I smell grass

Alexa wrote “Carnival”

I see a blue game

I feel candy in my hands

I taste a chocolate brownie

I hear boys and girls laughing

I smell a tasty sandwich 

Later I also had them complete the “Animal Poem” which I found over at Delightful Learning, though she found it from somewhere else. I felt like these were great activities, particularly for Treyton, who went into the week saying “I hate poems” and at the end of the week, had written two poems himself and admittedly stated “I guess they’re not that bad.”

Rhyming

We talked about poems and that sometimes poems rhyme. We put together a rhyming tree. Each of the kids had a different tree.

Alexa and I worked together. I obviously had to read the words to her, and then she would say whether or not they rhymed or not. Treyton completed his mostly on his own.

Links & Resources

Puffy Snowflake Craft

Snowflake Prints

Animal Poetry @ Early Bird Homeschool

Lapbook @ Homeschool Share

Rowing Week of Stopping by the Woods @ Delightful Learning

Audio of the Poem 

Video of Poem (soundscape)

Woodsy Coloring Pages

Shel Silverstein Poetry PDF