Being Thankful

 


LA: I can follow a model text to create my own writing.
LA: I can write with a given rhythm/number of syllables. 

Today we reflected on Thanksgiving. We listened to Ms Elder read aloud this book: Thankful by Spinelli. 
The book has a pattern: rhyming couplets. We worked in partners to create our own sets of rhyming couplets that each had 11 syllables, like the book. 

We shared our favourites and put them together to create a class poem: 



Happy Thanksgiving!


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