My Winter Poem Book

[30 Minutes]

Invite your child to explore the season and then create a book to describe what she has seen, smelled, touched, heard, and tasted.

You'll need:

• sheets of white paper • crayons or markers • stapler

What to do:

1. Talk with your child about how people learn through their five senses and about how our senses help us explore winter.
2. Take a walk outside and then create this poem when you come back inside.
3. With your child complete each of the poem starter lines, writing each one on a separate sheet of paper.

   Poem Starter:
   In winter..
   I see...
   I hear...
   I smell...
   I taste...
   I touch...

4. Invite your child to draw a picture for each line of the poem.
5. Let her draw a picture of winter and write the word "winter" on a cover page. Then staple all the pages together.

How to use:

Read the book together. Then share it with family and friends.

Let's Talk: Ideas to Explore Together.

• What did you smell on our walk outside?
• What do you like to eat in the winter? How does it taste?
• What did you see on our winter walk?
• What type of different things do you think you would see on a summer walk?

Useful information:

While you are having fun together, your child is developing observational skills and language skills which helps contribute to early literacy.