12 Days Countdown… Day 6: Warm Up

12 Days CountdownWinter
Written By Linda

JOYcabulary is counting down the days to the holiday break with our 12 Days Countdown. This series of 12 posts are like a vocabulary advent calendar to keep word learning going during the hectic holiday season.

Warm Up… with a Warm Up Poem

Here is a snuggly “warm up” centered around mittens. We’ve paired the poem The Mitten Song with books The Mitten Tree by Candace Christiansen and The Mitten by Jan Brett. Enjoy!

The Mitten Tree by Candace Christiansen

The Mitten by Jan Brett


Linda

Linda Szakmary has five decades of experience working as a classroom teacher, a district curriculum writer, a district facilitator of K-5 writing, and as a county K-8 literacy coach. She now works for Sullivan and Orange-Ulster BOCES as a content specialist. A poetry advocate and a lover of words and children’s literature, she has been a presenter at several state-wide conferences on vocabulary and writing. Currently, she is working with the staff developers of Mossflower to study intermediate vocabulary instruction within a reading workshop. Linda lives in Stone Ridge, NY where she enjoys gardening, yoga, reading, and rooting for the Yankees. You can often find her on a beach searching for sea glass.

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