I constantly have a million teaching ideas pinging around in my head, and it's imperative that I put them down on paper; otherwise, I wouldn't be able to get to sleep at night. I also teach nearly every subject and nearly every grade, and so I need to have teaching notes ready for almost anything.
When I was making my Distraction of Prefixes post, and looking up quintain (a jousting term), I saw in the lower corner of my computer screen that quintain is also a poetry term. I immediately thought of Joyce Sidman, who loves to play with many different poetic forms.
In searching through all her poetry books in hopes of finding an example of a quintain, I re-remembered how much amazing Science information she puts in with her Poetry. For example, I found a poem about the Painted Turtle hibernating below the mud... which would have been perfect for when we did that chapter in our Advent book, All Creation Waits. I wish I'd known!
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So...
It is time for a list. Here are the poem titles and the science notes that accompany them.
perfect for the Timeline of Life (Montessori Second Great Lesson)
scale for timeline on endpapers: 1 cm = 1 million years
First Life (a diamante) - bacteria
The Mollusk That Made You - mollusk
The Lichen We - lichen
untitled - shark
Scarab - beetle
Diatoms - diatoms
Gecko on the Wall - gecko
The Ants - ant
Grass - grass
Tail Tale - squirrel
Crow - crow
Fluff Head - dandelion
Come with Us - coyote
Baby - human
Welcome to the Night - raccoon
Snail at Moonrise - woodland snail
Love Poem of the Primrose Moth - primrose moth
Dark Emperor - great horned owl
Oak After Dark - tree
Night-Spider's Advice - orb spider
I Am a Baby Porcupette - porcupine
Cricket Speaks - cricket
The Mushrooms Come - mushroom
Ballad of the Wandering Eft - red eft / red-spotted newt
Bat Wraps Up - tree bat
Moon's Lament (an ubi sunt) - moon
In the Almost-Light - dew
Morning Warming - grasshopper
Shhh! They Are Sleeping - rabbit
He - fox
Bubble Song - spittlebug
Sap Song - xylem & phloem
Heavenly - milkweed
Ultraviolet - butterfly
Letter to the Sun
Letter to the Rain
Peel Deal - snake
Don't I Look Delicious? - toad
Always Together - goldfinch
An Apology to My Prey - red-tailed hawk
The Gray Ones - deer
We Are Waiting (a pantoum) - trees
Listen for Me - spring peeper
Spring Splashdown - wood duck
Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules - predaceous diving beetle
Fly, Dragonfly! - green darner
In the Depths of the Summer Pond - food chain
A Small Green Riddle - duckweed
Aquatic Fashion - caddis fly
Song of the Water Boatman
and Backswimmer's Refrain - water boatman, backswimmer
Travel Time - water bear / tardigrade
The Season's Campaign - cattails
Into the Mud - painted turtle
Dream of the Tundra Swan - tundra swan
Snake's Lullaby - garter snake
Snowflake Wakes - snowflake
Big Brown Moose - moose
Winter Bees - honeybee
Under Ice (a pantoum) - beaver
Brother Raven, Sister Wolf - raven, wolf
Vole in Winter - vole
What Do the Trees Know? - trees
Chickadees's Song - chickadee
The Whole World Is Melting - springtail
Triolet for Skunk Cabbage - skunk cabbage
That is all I have so far. When the library reopens after Boxing Day, I can go check and see what Francine has. I know I'm missing the following titles:
Hello, Earth! Poems to Our Planet
Just Us Two: Poems About Animal Dads
Eureka! Poems About Inventors
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