April 10, 2015

Poetry, poetry and more poetry. I told you the last time to be on the lookout for more poetry in the coming weeks because April is National Poetry Month.  I'm trying my best to expose these young minds to as many different types of poetry as I can in the hopes of showing them that poetry is nothing to fear.
I can remember as a child (and even to this day) that there was something strangely comforting about making things rhyme.  I still love coming up with rhyming couplets for special occasions. I hope that maybe one of my students will do the same one day. I  want them to know that poetry can be fun and silly and serious as well. In what other format can you say so much with such few words?
I must admit that their creativity and insight surprises and amazes me. Who knows?  We just might have some future poets on our hands.
Here are some examples from Kindergarten,  First and Second grades. We have the 5W poem from Kindergarten,  the Cinquain from First and the I Am poem from Second. The I Am poems were definitely the hardest to compose, but they really turned out pretty wonderful! Just see for yourself.