There are so many things that I love about April…it’s my birthday month, it’s *THIS* close to summer break, the beautiful weather, sunny weekends, soccer games… AND It’s National
Poetry Month! I love reading poetry with my class and teaching my kiddos how to write several different types of
poems. We’ve been hard at work for over a week now, so I wanted to show you what we have been up to!
We started with some of the easiest
poetry… Acrostic Poems and a Rebus Poem as a class :). OH, and I just smile when I look at kidart!
The next day we talked all about cats! We read fiction and nonfiction books, watched some YouTube videos, and wrote some more
poetry! The books and videos help get my students thinking and brainstorming 🙂
This little girl pretended she was Mrs. Lemons’ Head. She would shake uncontrollably, stare at the ceiling, and tell my brain to throw a pizza party for my class! So funny! She just cracked herself up with this one, ha!
You’ll find poetry all over my classroom this time of year. The students always rush over to read each other’s poems when given a free moment or two.
4 Responses
I used to do a poetry unit when I was in the classroom…I loved it!
I'm loving the round poems, and the way your students think as other things.
Hope you have a great rest of the month!
Ryan
The Disneyfied Teacher
Wow Mrs. Lemons, how I wish I was still in second grade…I'm in third grade this year and in a full blown spanish group with that in mind I have to think STAAR, STAAR at all times. I wish I could do all those fun activities too.. nevertheless I have created some spanish fun poetry stuff too. Go ahead and check it out at my tpt. Https:// http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Bilingual-biliterate-Learning. To check out the STAAR geared Spanish poems and some in English I have posted. Thanks and u are such an amazing inspirational teacher. Keep up the excellent work you do and thanks for sharing.
I love the poems your students have made! I always find a way to incorporate poetry into my lessons, from the obvious language, to social studies or science with acrostic and bio poems, to math with shape poems! I like to show my students that poems don't have to be stuffy and hard to understand!
Teaching Special Kids
Hi Amy,
I am writing nonfiction animal books with my students right now, but in 2 weeks we begin poetry. I am so glad I came across this post. I can already envision using what we know to inspire out poems. I also like how you displayed your student's writing.
Thanks!