Day 1.

Mẹ mà F con học thuộc là thầy đuổi học mẹ.

Students watching. Welcome to our spelling and poetry time. Now we're going to spend the next few
lessons together as first graders, learning about poems. Now a poem is a very special story. there's
something that makes it different from a normal story. And we'll find out about that together. Now the
first poem that I'd like us to learn together, I'm going to give you some clues about to see if you can figure
out the type of animal our poem is talking about. students watching, and boys and girls in this classroom,
listen to our clues and see if you can figure it out. ready, first clue. This animal is big and gray.Okay. You
kind of have an idea. Next clue, he has a very long nose. Oh I think I saw some of our students watching
smiling. I know I have some students in our classroom smiling at me. Last clue, this animal loves to eat
peanuts. Okay ,students watching, what is our new poem going to be about? and I think Benjamin knows
the answer. Benjamin what is our new poem going to be about? The elephant. it is. it's going to be about
an elephant. Now in a moment, we're going to listen to our elephant poem, but first, let's take a little bit
of time and let's talk about what a poem is. A poem has some special characteristics or things that make
it different from other stories. One thing that a poem has is a poem has rhythm. Now a rhythm just means
it has a beat.Ready, listen carefully. Alright, students watching and boys and girls in this classroom. did
you hear the rhythm that I made with my hands. listen again. Are you ready to make some rhythm or
make a beat right with me? students watching, boys and girls in this classroom, let's do that rhythm
together. Wow you did great. Students watching, and boys and girls in our classroom, would you like to
try a different rhythm? This time I'll only do it one time so listen carefully. Ready? try with me students
watching and boys and girls in our classroom.Good work. So a poem has rhythm which is just a beat. it
also has rhyme. A rhyme is special because a rhyme is a word that has the same ending sound. So if I gave
a rhyming word for the word cat I could say bat. if I gave a rhyming word for the word corn I could say
more. Each of those words has the same ending sound. So a poem has rhythm. It has rhyme and then it
does something else. A poem paints a picture ,but not with paint. It does it with words in our mind. So
Victoria, you'll listen to some special words and these words will put a picture about what that poem is
about in your mind. So a poem has rhythm, it has rhyme and it paints a picture with words in your mind.
Now let's listen to our new poem, the elephant. Listen for the rhythm, find those rhyming words and think
about the picture these words paint in your mind. the elephant, author unknown. The elephant walks like
this and like that. He's very tall and he's very fat. He has no fingers but he does have toes. And goodness
gracious. What a nose. the elephant author unknown. All right, students watching, remind us again what
poem or what is our poem about? what animal and Hayden what animal is our poem about? An elephant.
Did you hear that rhythm in our poem? kind of the beat of the words, the rhyme words like toes and nose
and then did it paint a picture with words in your mind? now this time I want us to listen to the poem
again. As you listen, listen to the words but watch as I add some special emotions to our poem . The
elephant, author unknown. The elephant walks like this and like that . He's very tall and he's very fat. He
has no fingers but he does have toes. And goodness, gracious. What a nose. The elephant author
unknown. All right students watching, boys and girls in our classroom. Stand up. let's listen to the words
of our poem again, and let's do the motions. just the motion. The elephant walks like this and like that.
He's very tall and he's very fat. He has no fingers but he does have toes. And goodness, gracious. what a
nose. The elephant author unknown. All right . We're ready to try this poem together. Students watching,
join us with the words and the motions. I'll begin by saying just the title, and then you'll say the title,
author and we'll say the poem together. The elephant. The elephant author unknown. The elephant walks
like this and like that. He's very tall and he's very fat. He has no fingers but he does have toes. And
goodness, gracious. what a nose . The elephant author unknown . Good start. Let's try again. The elephant
. The elephant author unknown . The elephant walks like this and like that. He's very tall and he's very fat.
He has no fingers but he does have toes. And goodness , gracious. What a nose. The elephant author
unknown. You can have a seat. Students watching, we’ll continue to work on our brand new poem the
elephant.
 Day 2

Mẹ mà F con học thuộc là thầy đuổi học mẹ.

Students watching and boys and girls in our classroom we're ready to begin our spelling and poetry time.
Now in our last lesson we introduced our brand new poem. Let's see if we have some students watching
who remember what type of animal our poem was about. Have it and help us remember Titus what animal
was our poem about? I'll give you a hint. He's big, he's gray. He has a great big trunk. An elephant.

it was about an elephant, and students watching I hope that you remember that as well. Now we used
some words to paint a picture because that's what poetry does. Now an artist is going to take paints and
draw a picture and we'll be able to see it, but a poet is someone who uses words to paint pictures in our
minds, and if you look right over here on my screen, I've got a great picture, and this picture shows me
what? Savy? An elephant. It does. it can show you an elephant and we see something about an elephant.
some things that our poem told us. Oh, he's got some great big feet, doesn't he? He has a great big trunk,
but there are some things that our elephant picture shows us that isn't in our poem at all. Oh we'll come
back to our poem in a little bit but start to memorize this picture and see if you can figure out what's
missing from our poem. There's another picture of an elephant and we can see it looks like he's on right
in the jungle or right in that tall grass, ready for a safari. And right there, students watching can you figure
out why this is my favorite picture? and boys and girls in the classroom give me a smile if you think you
know why this is my favorite. Okay, I think Arya thinks she knows why Arya? It's little. Yes, there's a cute
picture of a baby elephant right with its mama elephant. Now, we started our elephant poem together.
Let's have everyone listen to our brand new poem, the elephants, author unknown. The elephant walks
like this and like that. He's very tall and he's very fat. He has no fingers but he does have toes. And
goodness. Gracious. What a nose. The elephant, author unknown. okay have lots of smiles on our faces
in the classroom. Students watching I hope you are smiling, too. Why don't we do this? Everyone, stand
up. students watching join us. Let's go ahead and say our new poem and do the motions to the elephants.
The elephant, author unknown. The elephant walks like this and like that. He's very tall and he's very fat.
He has no fingers but he does have toes. And goodness. Gracious. What a nose. The elephant, author
unknown. All right, now let's say our poem and do the motions. The elephant. The elephant, author
unknown. The elephant walks like this and like that. He's very tall and he's very fat. He has no fingers but
he does have toes. And goodness. Gracious. What a nose. The elephant, author unknown. Have a seat.
and let's take just a moment. And let's look at our picture of our elephant that we have right here on our
screen. Now this is an illustration. This is an artist who took paints and drew a picture for us of what he
thinks our poem is about. Now look at our illustration of our elephant. Is there something on an elephant
that is not mentioned in our poem that our illustrator put there? What do you see? Aslan? Yes, there's no
tusk mentioned in our poem but our illustrator definitely put tusk on her elephant. Students watching do
you see something else that our illustrator put on the elephant that isn't in her poem? And what do you
see? Eva? do you see something else? Titus, I love that smile. The giant ear. That's it an elephant has really
big ears but our poem didn't mention that at all. Do you see something else that our poem didn't mention
that is on our elephant? Titus. that he doesn't have a tail. Well, he does have a tail. It's kind of hidden a
little bit but you're right it doesn't mention about him having a tail. Good thinking. Now what is something
our our illustrator did put on our elephant that is in our poem? Emery, do you see something that's on
our elephants? his trunk, what's something else that's on our elephant? Hayden. His toes. His toes is just
right. Now our illustrator drew the elephant the way he thought that it should be done. Well, today in this
lesson we're going to become illustrators as well. I want us to see if we can take some steps and we can
draw our very own picture of an elephant. So students watching and boys and girls in this classroom right
in front of you you should have just a blank piece of paper. Go ahead and take your pencil and you can
begin with our very first step. Now don't make it too big that you cover up your whole paper, but don't
make it so small that you can't see it. Here's what we're doing. We're almost finishing up our circle, it's
almost like an upside down C. Just do your best. Okay just right here. Start with number one. Love it. Oh
savy's off to a good start. Let's go on to our next step. For our next step, we're just kind of connecting the
end of our circle with a tube. Give him a nice big trunk for your elephant. There you go savy, go down just
a bit. you're doing it Victoria. an artist. Beautiful. Oh Savy, that looks good. Okay, here's something that
wasn't mentioned in our poem, for step three , let's draw some curved triangles to make the tusks. we'll
put one on each side of his trunk. Nice that looks good, Emery, you're doing a great job. Tray, I like the
way you're drawing. Let's go to step four. definitely something an elephant has. Draw those ears and kind
of put three curves on it. Got those three curves and then notice two there's a line right at the very top.
Nice. Looking great. Titus. Oh I'm really loving what Ava did. Ava even took her spelling book and she used
a little bit of that to look at the illustration as well. Feel free to do that students watching. Now for step
number five. We want to take some wrinkles and add that to his trunk so just draw some curved lines
right on his trunk. Five of them. Don't connect it going across. And now we're ready for our very last step.
Draw some eyes and just some little eyebrows for him, so get those eyes right on our elephant. Students
watching I want you to continue to work on this drawing with your on-site teacher don't forget to color it
and think about our new poem the elephant.