Perfectly Poetic

     We have been working on writing our own poetry through the month of February! We started by reading poetry by many authors, the kids really loved hearing the silly poems and wanted to jump right into writing their own.

     We started with Acrostic poetry. Kids chose to use their names or to use other words that they thought would be fun.

Terrifying

Roooar

Ear

X-tinct

Really big

Eat meat

Pushing

Terrifying

It's really big

Lizards

Eat rats

So many creatures

     Once we mastered acrostic poetry the kids began working on riddles. We started by using this great book by Tana Hoban:

      It is a wordless book so I peeked at the pictures and gave the kids a riddle to guess what it was. Being 5, 6, and 7 these guys are used to riddling their teacher to guess what they are thinking of (ha!) so they had so much fun writing their own riddles to trick their peers. '

I am brown.

I am little.

You drink me.

You put me in the microwave.

I am hot.

      After riddles we wrote our own "If I Were" poems. Most kids wrote 2 poems for this type. Their first poem was what they wanted to be when they grew up (yes, we are going to have quite a few mermaids!) and their second poem was what they would do if they were a grown-up, Mom, Dad or the teacher. Coffee drinking will abound when these guys grow up!

If I were a mermaid

I'd swim and

I'd play and

I'd have manners.

I'd be kind!

If I were a grown-up

I'd get married and

I'd drink coke and

I'd draw all day.

I'd be artistic

If I were a mom

I'd go shopping with my kids

I'd have a Chihuahua and

I'd go to work.

I'd be the boss

      Poetry was supposed to last for just the month of February, but the kids are having so much fun with it I think we will continue writing different kinds of poetry! When we are done kids will have their OWN poetry anthology (thanks Fancy Nancy for teaching us that word!)