Home Geography for Primary Grades · Lesson XVII · Unit 4: Water, air and weather
17. The fairy artist (poem)
Goal: Your child enjoys the poem about Jack Frost and draws frost pictures, connecting the poem to what they learned about frost.
You'll need
- The book open to the poem
- Dark blue or black paper and white chalk or white crayon
- A frosty window, if the season allows
What's in the book
A short poem about a little artist who paints pictures of trees, mountains, oceans and rivers on the window pane in the cold night, using the moon for a lamp and a frozen snowflake for a brush. The artist's name is Jack Frost.
The lesson, step by step
Read it aloud
Read the poem slowly. Don't say the artist's name until the last line; let your child guess.
Oh, there is a little artist
Who paints in the cold night hours
Who is it?
Read the last verse.
His brush is a frozen snowflake;
Jack Frost the artist's name.
Ask: What is Jack Frost really? (Frost: frozen dew from the vapor in the air.) What is his canvas? His lamp?
What does he paint?
List the pictures in the poem: trees and flowers, snow-white mountains, oceans with ships, rushing rivers with bridges.
Look for real frost
On a cold morning, look closely at frost on a window or car. Do you see "trees" or "feathers"? In warm months, look at frost in the freezer.
Draw like Jack Frost
Your child uses white chalk or crayon on dark paper to make a frost picture of a mountain, a river or a tree.
Afterwards
Your child may like to learn one verse by heart and say it on the next frosty morning.