 ©Graphic by Amber Fleek Welcome to Poetry Friday, hosted today by Trisha at The Miss Rumphius Effect. Amidst moving, Trisha is gracious doing Poetry Friday and doing it old school. Yesterday, Dave at Leap of Dave, offered the prompt for the monthly Spiritual Thursday Journey. This has been something that I decided to be curious about and join in this year. His prompt had these questions:
 A lot to ponder! And I want to speak especially to the first question bo t physical place. It made me think of a book I have been reading recently, Celtic Ways to Pray: Finding God in the Natural Elements by Ruth Lindberg Pattison. Visiting Ireland last June, resonated with me in a deep, deep way. I was home. I creturned very curious about how the Irish meld the Celtic beliefs with Christianity. I am a seeker, I always have been. Maybe in another life, I would have studied theology. Part one explores God in Earth and it was perfect for Dave's question about physical place. I have several to share below. I collect rocks (my suitcase was too heavy returning from Ireland and Scotland because of this). My photos are visual prayers.
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Patricia at Reverie is hosting Poetry Friday this week. Patricia is sharing a beautiful cento in honor of her fortieth wedding anniversary. Congratulations, Patricia. Maybe I put the cart before the horse by posting the student poetry project last week. So this week, I'm sharing my process.  I Am I am a blue dragonfly flitting from word to word I wake to the joy of sunrise I dream of the ocean and the full moon I am a blue dragonfly flitting from word to word I understand my fingers are typesetters, typing words into poems I worry about those I love in the middle of the night I believe the world needs more kindness I am a blue dragonfly flitting from word to word © Jone Rush MacCulloch  I started with writing in my note book figuring out what I might say. I wrote a list: fruit or vegetable, animal, verb, color, machine and location. Thinking about students, decided to provide a few more options as shown below.  Because I was in the class for two days. students were able to create the hands on one day and write the poems the next day. I wanted the students to think a little about the collage so they had this planning sheet. Not that they had to stick with it when creating the collage. I find it helps a little. I brought in a container of papers and items for collage (benefits of creating mixed media). I gave them a half sheet of 8 X 10 to collage on. Collage first. Trace hand. Cut out It is so interesting that some students were challenged to trace their hand and then cut it out. I offered papers with words that might have some connection with students. At least one student wrote and cut out his own words. I wished that I had more photos in my paper stash of a variety of animals. Students are resourceful because some of the kids drew their animals. Mrs. Fisher's Fifth Graders Poetry Art © Graphic by Amber Fleek
Janice at Salt City Verse is hosting us today. She is sharing some pretty wonderful new releases.
This week, I finally was able to teach the poetry lesson I planned for the end of March and ended up having to cancel my sub job due to an illness. It was a combination of creating a collage of the student's hand and then writing "I Am" poems. FYI, this is a class with 16 boys and 7 girls. |
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