Hi fellow teachers! Are you looking for a fun poem to use in your K-2 classroom? This poem is another “riddle poem” that you can use as a warm-up, filler, bell ringer or to complement a lesson plan. Teaching tie-ins include: inference, sequence ordering, skits, SEL or character analysis, poetry and language analysis, and visual arts.
Discover more riddle poems here (spoiler alert: it’s a poem about eggs) and here (a poem about a chipmunk).
Let me know if you use the poem – I’d love to hear how it goes.
Watch a video of the “What Am I? (Rain boots)” poem here:
All winter long, I lie in the hall,
then the ice starts to melt
and the rain starts to fall
so you wiggle me on,
pull me up nice and tall
and we skip and we splash
in puddles, large and small
Download a PDF, black & white, printable version of the poem:
Click here for PPT and Google Slides versions as well as extra resources, including a 17-page PDF and ready-to-use activities (printable and smart board versions):
- Warm-up activity
- Pre-reading questions
- Sequence ordering activity
- SEL character analysis questions and drawing activity
- Visual arts activity connected to rain boots
- Poetry and language analysis activity (words that rhyme with “all”)
- 2 poetry writing assignments (1 with extra scaffolding)
- Teacher assessment checklist
- Teacher notes and answer key
Happy Teaching! Kim x
Kim T. Harrison 