In January a new library opened just a few minutes from where we live. It is big, beautiful and we love to visit it often. Today I decided it would be fun to bring our school work to the library. The kids learned how to write Cinquain Poetry. Since we are in the midst of studying spiders, I had the kids make the subject of their Cinquain Poem spiders. I thought I'd share their poetry here.

Spiders

Creepy, Crawly

Runs, jumps, dangles

Ballooning through the bright blue sky

Black Widow

by Grace, 11

Spiders

Black, hairy

Jump, walk, ballooning

Lay their eggs in a sac

Creepy

by Della, 9

Spiders

Furry, crawls

Moves, eats, catches

Spins silk out of its spinneret

  Charlotte

by TJ, 6

Claira said her poem was about elephants. She did a very nice and neat job at making pretty little scribbles on her paper.

If you're wondering what the rules to writing Cinquain Poetry is, here they are:

• To begin, choose a person, place, or thing to write your cinquain about.
• Line 1: One word that tells what the poem is about
• Line 2: Two words that describe the subject
• Line 3: Three words that describe something the subject does
• Line 4: Four to six word describing the subject further
• Line 5: One or two words that rename what the poem is about (a synonym)

In case you're wondering why I made mention of our library at the beginning of this post, it's because I have a picture to share with you. Last week a new statue was revealed. It is a statue of Mary Draper Ingles. It just so happens that she was kept prisoner by indians just a few minutes from here at Big Bone Lick! Click here to read more about this brave woman. Here's a picture of my kiddos sitting in front of this beautiful statue.