Poetry Friday: Shoes Made for Poems
I am working with a second grade teacher in collaboration on a unit about poetry writing, clouds, and science. It is for Entry 1 of the national boards; “Instructional Collaboration”. It is the way library classes should be held. There are days, many days, that the 30 minute time frame does not work for me. My convictions have only grown stronger through this national board process this year.
When I started with the second grade class, many did not know was meant by the word: poem. The teacher and I did lessons about poems. We shared poems and then the students drew their shoes and wrote poems for their shoes. Here are a few, unfortunately I cannot share the drawings:
Soccer Shoes
Oh my shoes come untied all the time.
They are made in Vietnam.
Kick
Really hard
Guard the goal
My shoes have
Zig Zags on the side
They are Adidda’s.
Allison
My Shoes
My Shoes Make Me Feel Good.
My shoes have cool spiders.
My shoes always come untied.
They light up.
They are made in China
My shoes rock!
By Brenton
Black Leather Boots
Boots made out of leather.
They make me feel
happy and proud.
They are made in Chinas
You will never expect karate
Boots!
By Lacey
Pretty Shoes
My shoes are pink and white
And they have spots
And holes
They even have hearts too
And they are sneakers
And air breathers
They make me magical.
By Lisa
Second Best Shoes
Riding on
Wheels
On soft leather.
So much fun to ride.
My shoes are made
In China.
My shoes are
Fun to walk.
My shoes been in a movie
Theatre.
My shoes are the second best shoes.
By Dorian
The poems and the illustrations are fantastic. The teacher will be putting the collection into a book and will then donate the book into the library. I have several student generated books but the donations have fallen off in the past few years. It’s exciting to see someone revitalizing thie student author collection and giving voice and purpose for writing.
I hope you visit Writing and Ruminating who is hosting Poetry Friday.
I finished Eat Pray Love last night and will begin Copper Sun this weekend. The author, Sharon Draper, will be in our district for a “One Book, One Community” this spring. Copper Sun will be the books she talks about at that forum.
Happy Reading.
MsMac
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I wish I had shoes to make me magical, too. And Lacey is right: “You will never expect karate/Boots!”
Yay! More poems from your students to make me happy.
I love the one where the poet says that her/his shoes have been in a movie theater. Are they sticky from the floor in there, I wonder?
Great poems! I agree about the 30 minute library period. So inauthentic. So worthless for real teaching and collaboration!
Your posts about your reading groups and your lessons are so interesting and helpful to me as a school librarian. You really push your students to engage their higher level thinking.
Thank you so much for sharing what you do.
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