Poetry Friday round-up is with Rebecca at Sloth Reads.
As school winds down, I keep teaching. I haven’t pulled out a movie yet. I haven’t started packing (not significantly, anyway). I want to savor every moment with my kiddos and want them to enjoy every moment left with me.
On Wednesday, we held our annual Gifted by Nature Day when all the gifted kids in the parish elementary schools gather in City Park for a day of nature, learning, and play. This year our theme focused on fractals. Do you know what a fractal is? Here’s a collage of fractals in nature:
Fractals in Nature
To follow up on the learning from our day in the park, I reviewed fractals and provided art supplies for students to paint a chosen fractal from nature. Did you know that the Fibonacci series is a fractal? Of course, we had to write fib poems. I used this post by Catherine Flynn as a model text. I wrote a model fib poem based on a fractal in nature. Then sent them out to create. Here’s a gallery of art and poems.
Lightning
by Jasmine, 6th grade
Boom
Clap
The sound
Lightning makes
Spreading through the sky
Sharing its color with the world
Fascinating us with its beauty, but deadliness
Peacock Feather by Lynzee
Fib
Bird
Feather
Natural
Beautifully swirls
Fractal stares from a peacock’s wingby Lynzee, 3rd grade
Reflections on the Teche 