Topic: Kids Art Class
Demonstration drawings of spring peepers from kids class - click the links for coloring pages, listen to the peeper chorus, and see how small a peeper is.
Spring Peepers coloring page 1
Spring peepers coloring page 2
We tried brainstorming rhyming words to make a poem on Spring Peepers. The whiteboard below shows my fast attempt at a 'poem'. The kids tried some rhyming lines too. An english teacher told me once that one should avoid the rhymes with kids writing poems because they'll worry too much about rhyming, rather than thinking about what they want to say. Steven Sondheim, in an interview with Terry Gross tonight, said, "First think of what you want to say, then you hit the rhyming dictionary to come up with ways to say your meaning in rhyme." (my paraphrase of his words on writing song lyrics.) Maybe you'll have a go at a poem. There are no poems on these fellows (to speak of). Let us start - here is the updated version.
Spring Peepers - Poem
As we peepers peep
We keep the people from their sleep.
Others hear our chorus
And know such swells of spring
A surest sign new life it is to bring.
In our search for other peeps,
We sing all night as we creep
And jump around the deep.
©Catinka Knoth 2010
Listen to chorus of spring peepers - mp3 recording
Peepers are only thumbnail size! Peeper sitting on a thumb.
Kids Art
