Poetry break day today

Today we celebrated poetry break day (a day late..mommy brain for sure) We enjoyed sitting by the fireplace reading wonderful poems. The kids especially enjoyed Falling up and Where the sidewalk ends books by Shel Silverstein...they thought the poems were supper silly. We also enjoyed a few other books like The llama who had no pajama, For laughing out loud, and Mirror mirror, so as you can see from our poetry collection that we read today it kinda set the mood for silliness all morning, it was nice to do something different for school today!!
After reading for a better part of our morning we decided to try this poetry thing out. I found a few great resource for doing poetry with children...
Here is the site I found helpful...
http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html
http://www.canteach.ca//elementary/poetry1.html
http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1398
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/

We did a Bio poem which is

Method

Line 1: First Name
Line 2: Four descriptive traits
Line 3: Sibling of...
Line 4: Lover of
Line 5: Who fears...
Line 6: Who needs...
Line 7: Who gives...
Line 8: Who would like to see...
Line 9: Resident of...
Line 10: Last Name(we did middle name instead)

Caila

Silly,playful, loving, toothless

Sibling of Ricky, Jameson, and Annabelle

Lover of snuggly bears

Who fears the dark

Who needs lots of snacks

Who gives laughter

Who would like to see God in heaven

Resident of planet earth

Eleanor

Rick,

Crafty,silly,playful,snugly

Sibling of Caila,Jameson,Annabelle

Lover of family, lego's, woodworking

Fears the dark,

Needs to sleep late,

Gives gifts to people I love

Who would like to see Alaska,

Resident of the earth

Daniel

We also worked on a 5W poem
Method

Line 1: Who
Line 2: What
Line 3: Where
Line 4: When
Line 5: Why

Rick's poem called Lego's
Lots of colors
Easy to follow directions
Good fun
Obsessed with this great toy
So many thing to build

It was a super fun day for sure I actually think we might add one day in the week to have a poetry break time in the middle of school, where we can read a few poems and then write a poem of our own. Maybe even start a family poetry book because they enjoyed today so much!! We can't wait for national poetry month in April. Well I'm off to do our lunch dishes, and afternoon chores...I might even sneak in a little nap too! hehe (pregnancy always makes me so tired)

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