This just in: Spotted in room 202 were fresh new poets who were alive and ready to unleash their creative minds! Today we started reading and writing poetry. Poetry is a wonderful chance for students to play around with words and break all the rules they have learned on how to write ( GULP!). That's right! Complete sentences?? Nope! Periods?? Not so much!
Poetry is all about expressing feelings and thoughts about a topic. Today, they got a chance to write an acrostic poem all about themselves. There were some extremely creative creations. Students really took advantage of the "Be more Descriptive" poster full of synonyms for boring words such as: 'nice, happy, smart.'
After recess the students came back to discover a mystery person hung poems EVERYWHERE in the room! Poems were on shelves, walls, tables, drawers, Mrs. Tsengas, and cubbies! Ok, Mrs. Tsengas didn't have a poem on her, but they were everywhere. Readers were then asked to investigate and notice the features of each poem. We will continue studying poetry the next few weeks. Below are some neat sites to practice poetry. I can't wait to see what wonderful poems will be created next!
Silly Poems
Poetry for Kids
More Great Poems
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