Until I Saw the Sea

INTRODUCTION

In concluding your weather unit ask your Kindergarten students what they have learned about wild wind and how wind affects weather. On a chart board, list what the students say and discuss. Prompt students to use wind vocabulary such as; lull, wind chill, gusts, breeze and specific types of wild wind weather like tornado, blizzard, hurricane, cyclone and storm.

Before reading the peom, ask students to relaxe and think about what happens on this windy day at the beach...

Until I Saw The Sea

Until I saw the sea

I did not know
that wind
could wrinkle water so.

I never knew

that sun
could splinter a whole sea of blue.

Nor

did I know before
a sea breathes in and out
upon a shore.
Lilian Moore



EXTENSION
Ask specific questions about the poem after reading it three times, such as;
How does wind wrinkle water? What is a shore? What does wind do to water at the beach?
How does the sea breathe in and out? Does the author really think that the shore breathes like we do?

Introduce a month long classroom project: Wind Chart
select a student each day to chart the wind after coming in from recess

Art Project: Wind Chime