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PreWriting
Salut!
The grade 5-6 class at Jeanne Sauve French Immersion School will be
describing a small wooded area that separates the north side of the primary
schoolyard from the adjacent mall. The wooded area is the home of poplar
trees and wild flowers. The fall and spring puddles have sometimes been
the resting place of migratory ducks and the birth place of local frogs.
Our class has a particular attachment to this area. This small natural
area has been cleaned up by the members of the school's Environment Club, by
designated pupils on Earth Day and by the grade five Earth Keepers. In
grade two, this area formed the basis of an environmental unit of study.
The former teacher-librarian Madame Kelly was instrumental in encouraging
the pupils and their teachers, Madame Howerow and Monsieur Robert, to
study and to appreciate nature at your doorstep.
Here is our list of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs. In addition we have
similes (looks like/sounds like/smells like, feels like) and metaphors
(reminds me of...).
Nouns: school, trees, poplars, a stand, leaves, branches, grass, goldenrods,
thistles, Queen Anne's Lace, weeds, pond, water, crickets, ants,
butterflies, Monarch, gulls, ducks, airplanes, clouds, sky, shouts
Adjectives: dark forest green, sea-weed green, olive green, brown, fawn-
brown, sepia-brown indigo, purple, lemon-yellow, ivory white, jet black,
pale, dead, withered, fallen, crisp, cone- shaped, tall, stately, soft, dry,
wispy, scattered, stretched
verbs: rustle, stroke, brush, chirp, flit, soar, gaze, touch, weave, hide
adverbs: in the distance, slightly, lightly, to the left, on a hill...
looks like/ sounds like/ smells like/ feels like (similes):sound like tiny
birds, smell like sweet sugar, smell like honey, smell like wet paper, look
like swirly grey egg, like a bear claw, like a flower, like skyscrapers,
like cotton balls
reminds me of (metaphors): water rushing onto a sandy beach, dome of azure
blue, a sea of colour, a wall, buildings, a blanket, a unicorn , an
alligator, a wolf, a dragonfly, an elephant
Grade 5-6
Jeanne Sauve French Immersion School
London, Ontario, Canada
Louisa Howerow
teacher-librarian
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