If you don't do poetry activities in April, what kinds of things do you do throughout the year with poetry?
As part of National Poetry Month, April 18th is designated as Poem in Your Pocket Day. Have you or your students ever participated in this fun activity?
Read Write Think has some ideas to use with Poem in Your Pocket Day. There are also a few poetry resources on our Connect Collaborate Share wiki.
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I have enjoyed pairing Natl. Poetry month with Baseball's Opening day, and Casey at the Bat. It has benn particularly interesting to talk about Jackie Robinson too, as well as the new book "Just as good." about the second black player in the major leagues. Anybody know what his name is?? Respond by next Tuesday, and I'll bring you a box of Cracker Jack.
ReplyDeleteI always like to use the poetry forms found on this website.
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I have always done a "Poetry Attack" - poems about math posted near the math classroms, food poems in the cafeteria, gym poems near the gym and of course, poems about books near the Library. This year our sohool is doing a Poetry Slam, coordinated by joint school and CLC staff, in April in the auditorium to honor of National Poetry Month. I have a poetry display in the library to give students ideas.
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DeleteMy students are crazy about concrete poems. Has anyone read the concrete poems by John Grandits? I seem to have run out of time by this time of year, or I'd have my upper grades write their own concrete poems.
ReplyDeleteI teach about simies and metaphors and then have my students hunt for them from poetry books and come up with their own, which I post.
Sarah, I love your idea to "attack" the school with poems that fit an area. Do you do this with your students, or do you find and post them on your own? I like that seeing them around the school would likely get kids reading them.
Haven't done it this year since I changed my curriculum to match Story Town lessons, but in the past we'd have "Blue Light Specials" in the library complete with the flashing blue light over the section of the library I was highlighting so the kids would know where to find the books. I've done this with the poetry section and the kids devour it.
ReplyDeleteLove this idea. Are they a string of lights or one light? Hmm, I would like to do something like this.
DeleteI have a Poetry and Prose Night on where family, friends and students can share poems and stories. They are encouraged to share at least one they have written. It is very informal and fun. My favorite poem is The Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. I teach it to my 6th graders every year, and those who come to Poetry and Prose night perform it together. I am interested in the concrete poems, Linda. And the attack, Sarah sounds fun.
ReplyDeleteI usually choose a class or two to create a photostory around a poem they like. This year I am going to try some third graders.
ReplyDeleteWe are reading the poetry books listed in the Beehive Book Awards. "Better Together" is their favorite so far.
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