We have started a unit on poetry, which the students are loving! I found some great books at the McGill library, I actually walked out with a stack, far more than would fit in my book bag! A few favourite books so far are “Take Me Out of the Bathtub” by Alan Katz , the “You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You” series by Mary Ann Hoberman, “My Hippo Has the Hiccups” by Kenn Nesbitt, and of course, all the Shel Silverstein books.
We wrote a class poem which we shared at the volunteer tea this afternoon. It was inspired by “You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You”, but instead of only two voices, we had two groups of voices. We brainstormed a list of all the things the parents do for our school, then used those ideas to write our poem. We made sure to put in lots of tasty words, and the class had fun reading them with expression!
If you’d like to explore creating your own poetry, the Magnetic Poetry site has a fun tool. I made a nonsense poem, you can read it here!