Poetry Friday: Getting a Book in the Mail
arrive home from school
book package, note in mailbox
way to end the day
I traveled 35 minutes each way to school so coming home this week to a book and a handwritten note was delightful. I won a copy of The Llama Who Had No Pajama from Elaine during National Poetry Month.
It is such a great collection of poems by Mary Ann Hoberman. I love the variety in the poetry forms and the poetry subjects. Plus there are 100 of them!! Love it!
Two favorites are haiku
Fireflies
Fireflies at twilight
In search of one another
Twinkle off and on.
Flamingo
Sea risen sunbird
O flaming flamingo, spread
Wide your red feathers
I know that I am going to spend a lot of time with this treasure. I see reading to students and reading it to my grand daughters. Thank you, Elaine.
Poetry Friday Roundup is at Two Writing Teachers.
Kidlitosphere, Libraries, Poetry, Poetry Friday | Comments (4)Poetry Friday: A Cloudy Day
Having second graders write poems about clouds was part of the collaboration unit I just finished integrating science and literacy. These are a few treasures. Terran’s is significant because he hates to write. I love his repetition.
Cumulonimbus
Cumulonimbus
Rain cloud
Thunderhead
Lightening will make a
Big boom!
It is really dark.
–Makenna, 2nd grade
Cumulus, cumulus
You are big
Cumulus, cumulus
Whit cumulus
Puffy on top
Cumulus, cumulus
You have a flat bottom
–Terran, 2nd grade
Stratus
Stratus are soft
They are like a blanket
They are
Cool, tight, best
They are gray
–Oscar, 2nd grade
Unseeable
Calm
Wispy
Like
A
Wave
A little
Rain drizzle
Seems restless
Like
It’s
Always
There.
–Tailor, 2nd grade
Stratus
Soft like a blanket
So wispy
So gray
Low in the sky
See in the morning
Wiggly line
–Adam, 2nd grade
Counting down until I mail my national board box with my 4 portfolio entries.
Mailing date: March 27, 2008.
More wonderful poetry can be found at Wild Rose Reader.
Happy Reading.
MsMac
Kidlitosphere, Poetry, Poetry Friday, School, Uncategorized | Comment (1)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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