1st Graders Publish Poems about the Moon

I visited Laura's first grade classroom to help them with a project about the moon. They had written several sentences using adjectives to describe the moon. I worked with them on revising: the students cut apart their sentences and rearranged them until they liked the way their poem sounded. Some students even deleted one or two sentences. Then they published these poems with a painting of the moon. These paintings became flaps that lift up to show the poem hidden underneath.