The Abington Friends School campus has a bevy of sensory information. There are sounds of the new gym building, birds chirping, car passing by on the street above mixed with the beautiful scenes around us. This makes it the perfect place for us to begin our study of sensory details in our writing.
We began by reading Leila Ward’s book “ I Am Eyes”.
We then walked around outside observing the sensory details around us. We documented them in our journals.
For homework, we created our own “I Am Eyes” book, writing and drawing the things we saw after school.
We then read Jane Yolen's "Owl Moon". We were able to identify how she used sensory details to tell the story of this special moment between a father and child.
We also observed moments from nature that inspired us, spending time to describe them.
As the year progresses, we will be adding metaphors and similes to our cache, using these to describe the beautiful things we see around us.
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