Idea from:  Thematic Unit-Tide Pools and Coral Reefs

 

Read the poem "Until I Saw the Sea" by Lillian Moore.  Use the pattern to create "Until I Saw the  Coral Reef, Tide Pools, Ocean

 

 

Example

"Until I Saw the Coral Reefs"                                           Until I Saw the ________________

 

Until I saw the coral reefs                                                Until I saw the ________________

 

I did not know                                                                I did not know

 

That parrot fish were blue and pink                                  ____________________________

 

Or clown fish were orange                                               ____________________________

 

I never knew                                                                   I never knew

 

That coral grew in so many shapes,                                  ____________________________

 

Sizes, and amazing colors                                                ____________________________

 

                                                                                       ____________________________

 

Nor did I know before                                                    Nor did I know before

 

That underneath the ocean                                               ____________________________

 

Was a beautiful, silent world                                            ____________________________

 

Waiting to be seen.                                                          ____________________________