 Background
 Our project was inspired by Elaine Good's
autumn book, Fall is Here! I Love It! All the pages follow a similar
format with a child
experiencing the sights, colors, tastes, and smells as fall comes to the family
farm.
Beautifully illustrated by Susie
Wenger, it shows simple, everyday, predictable things - things we know well and are happy
to see again. A
similar project, based on another Elaine Good book, That's
What Happens When It's Spring!, received a Miss
Rumphius Award from the RTEACHER Listserv (International Reading
Association).
Objectives
Fall Is Here! We Love It! is a collaborative literacy project. Students will share signs of
autumn in their different communities through writings and illustrations. Classes
K-4 and older special education students are welcome to participate.
After reading and listening to autumn stories and identifying
signs of the new season, students will illustrate and write a descriptive class poem
or paragraph ending with Fall
Is Here! We Love It!
Crunchy leaves
Colorful leaves
Coming down, coming down.
Fall is here! I love it!
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The project fits well in a study about seasons, communities, or
weather, and includes whole-class and individual student poetry writing. It's also a
good project for teachers new to Internet collaboration as well as those more experienced,
and it easily is aligned to literacy, science, and technology standards.
What to do: Project Specifics
September 1 - November 15, 2005
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Join the project:
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To
Register: Please send the following information to
Marci at
marcimcg@aol.com
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Your
name and title (Mr. Miss, Ms. Mrs.)
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Grade level
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Your
email address (just one)
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Name
of your school and town
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Website url (optional)
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Read about autumn and pick a favorite book
title to share with project participants.
Identify signs of autumn in your community,
share with your class, engage in lessons/activities related to the season. Select an
activity to share with our project.
Have students write a class poem ending with
the line Fall Is
Here! We Love It! Write individual fall
poems using any format.
Illustrate the writing or take related
photographs.
Some suggestions for
additional activities can be found on our project resources
page.
Submit Your Project
Send in an email (please no html or doc pages) to marcimcg@aol.com no later than November 15, 2005:
1. A favorite book title/author you recommend for fall reading
2. A class poem about fall in
your community, ending the writing with the line: Fall is
here! We love it!
3. An activity,
lesson, recipe you have tried successfully in your classroom.
4. No more than three (3)
images as jpg or gif files (please try to resize the images before
sending)
5. The state and technology
standards your class contribution reflects
* Optional: address of
class website showing your students' work; a link will be made to your webpage
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