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Kidlit Progressive Poem 2025 and Poetry Friday Catch Up Featuring TWU Poetry Videos

4/7/2025

 
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I have today's Kidlit Progressive Poetry line.  I hope you'll indulge me as I share my Texas Women's University Poetry Video links.  Allergies caught up with me on Friday thus delaying a poem

This year for the midterm project, I took some poems from poetry friends as well as working with Heidi Bee Roemer who has a most excellent Steamed Power Poetry Contest.  Students selected from a variety of poems. They are encouraged to submit the poems to the contest but that is optional.  Here are the first five of ten poems.  Enjoy.

Mariana V.: At The Pet Shop by Heidi Bee Roemer. 
Clarissa R.:Welcome to the Science Lab by Heidi Bee Roemer
Sierra B.: Name That Seed! by Heidi Bee Roemer
Aisha L.: Ode to the Washing Machine by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Victoria T.: My New Remote by Ken Nesbitt Note: The static audio at the beginning is intentional.


Kidlit Progressive Poem 2025: It's 13th Year

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​I think I may have participated in the annual progressive poem every year. Irene Latham began the tradition in 2012 and hosted until 2019. (Early archives here.)  Margaret Simon stepped in and has been hosting since 2020. (Recent archives are tabs at the top of her page.)
The rules:
The poem passes from blog to blog 
Each poet-blogger adds a line. 
The poem is for children. 
Other than that, anything goes.
Each blogger will copy the previous line exactly as written (unless permission from the previous poet is obtained) and add their line, offering commentary on their process if they wish.

This year  Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewisel wrote the beginning line and yesterday Buffy Silverman at http://www.buffysilverman.com/blog  left me a line which instantly made me think of my deck with the Downy woodpeckers and hummingbirds.

Open an April window
let sunlight paint the air
stippling every dogwood
dappling daffodils with flair
Race to the garden
where woodpeckers drum
as hummingbirds thrum

Now it travels to Janice Scully at Salt City Verse.  
April 1 Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
April 2 Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect
April 3 Robyn at Life on the Deckle Edge
April 4 Donna Smith at Mainely Write
April 5 Denise at https://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/
April 6 Buffy at http://www.buffysilverman.com/blog
April 7 Jone at https://www.jonerushmacculloch.com/
April 8 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
April 9 Tabatha at https://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/
April 10 Marcie at Marcie Flinchum Atkins
April 11 Rose at Imagine the Possibilities | Rose’s Blog
April 12 Fran Haley at Lit Bits and Pieces
April 13 Cathy Stenquist
April 14 Janet Fagel at Mainly Write
April 15 Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink
April 16 Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at The Poem Farm
April 17 Kim Johnson at Common Threads
April 18 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
April 19 Ramona at Pleasures from the Page
April 20 Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading
April 21 Tanita at {fiction instead of lies}
April 22 Patricia Franz
April 23 Ruth at There’s No Such Thing as a Godforsaken Town
April 24 Linda Kulp Trout at http://lindakulptrout.blogspot.com
April 25 Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
April 26 Michelle Kogan at: https://moreart4all.wordpress.com/
April 27 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
April 28 Pamela Ross at Words in Flight
April 29 Diane Davis at Starting Again in Poetry
April 30 April Halprin Wayland at Teaching Authors




Poetry Friday, Week 10: Georgia Heard's Heart Map, Students and an Invitation

3/14/2025

 
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 Janice at Salt City Verse has a lot of poetry goodies to share on her blog.  I concur with her that Laura Shovan's February poetry challenge kept me writing all month.  The prompts shared by the group took me in surprising places.

On Wednesday, I was enjoying morning coffee and my former school texted me, 'can you sub, it's an emergency?" It was a day that I didn't have plans and it worked out to jump in.  The plans were emergency written with the topic "art/writing".  I hadn't thought to bring any poetry lessons.  I went to ​Georgia Heard's website and perused the Heartmaps and decided to do the   belonging heart.

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Start of National Poetry Writing Month with a Write-In

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On April 5, 2025, you're invited to write with me 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST.
A group of us gathered on January 18, 2025 and had a wonderful time writing and sharing.

If you want to join me on April 5, you can sign up here:
​Writing for a Shared Poetry World

Poetry Friday: Week 1, Student Work-Winter Poetry

1/10/2025

 
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 Kat at Kats Whiskers has the Poetry Friday hosting duties and shares a poem about cats and dogs.

I returned to 
 Mrs. Martin’s fourth graders I had the opportunity to teach winter poems and we created snowman art. I absolutely love how the snowman turned out. Their expressions! I modeled that they could tear the circle out instead of using scissors and they did.  They used the remaining whit paper to create the snow.

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I used four poems from The Dirigible Balloon:
Winter Word Warning by Lisa Roullard
The Day After the Snow Day by Theresa Gaughan
Winter Fairies by Moe Phillips (We also listened to this one)
Wintertime Fair by Mary Cronin

Students had copies of the poems and we underlined wintry words that we would like to see in our poems. I then challenged them to use at least one of their underlined words.
I put them into the PADLET. They are in Section 2. So scroll past Section I.  By using the teacher and adding sections, I can maximize the allowed number of free Padlets.

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Saturday, January 18, 2025

What: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Let's create or write poems for persistence, for presence during the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. Let's share our work in community.
If you are a writer, a poet, a slow stitcher, or artist, join us for a couple hours of creative community. 10-12 EST
If you can only join us for an hour, great. Join us.

Join here:  Creating for Persistence.

Poetry Friday, Week 45: Student Work

11/15/2024

 
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Thanks to Karen at Karen Edmisten* for hosting Poetry Friday this week. She is sharing an Ellen Bass poem that had me at "the smell of grated ginger."

This week, I subbed for in a fifth grade class for my friend who was a teacher librarian and was moved into the classroom as a result of the district getting rid of the library positions. She has a fabulous class. She left me a Joyce Sidman unit of poetry for the week.  So I read:
  • Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
  • Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
  • This Is Just to Say
  • Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
My goal this week has been to generate four poems.  We ended up with three (one as a group poem based on Sandra Cisneros' "When in Doubt").  I was in Georgia Heard's Write Bites class and she shared that poem. I decided to share my take on it with class so that we could write a group poem.

When In Doubt

When in doubt. 
take a nap. Even at 10 in the morning.

When in doubt
eat the dark chocolate stashed in the drawer labeled “when in doubt”.

When in doubt
go outside at night. Look for the newest stars. Name them.

When in doubt
reread letters you’ve saved in a box. It’s your history.


When in doubt
talk to the neighborhood crow. The one who brings you trinkets.

When in doubt
drive to the coast. Count the waves.

When in doubt
sip tea at your local tea shop. Read the tea leaves.

When in doubt
text your friends. Let them know they’re loved.

© Jone Rush MacCulloch

The class wrote poems in response to Night Emperor and This is Just to Say. In the Padlet, you will also see my "This is Just to Say" poem, regarding teaching fractions in math this week.  I am so hopeless in teaching math!!

Poetry Friday, Week 40: Student Animal Sound Poems

10/10/2024

 
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Thanks to Jama at Jama's Alphabet Soup for hosting our poetry posts.

First of all, I want to say that I am holding in my heart and prayers all those who live on the east coast and have been affected by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. Especially my poet friends.  It was good to see Jan’s post.
Last week, I subbed in two classrooms and was excited to once again share Georgia Heard's book, Boom! Bellow! Bleat! as a mentor text. With fourth grade, we did animals but in fifth grade, I gave the option to create a "spooky animal" like a "Pumpkinoctopus". It's evident that students had fun with these.  

Mrs. Martin's Fourth Graders

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Mrs. Standish's Fifth Grade

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Poetry Friday,  Week 20: Student Work

5/17/2024

 
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Patricia at Reverie is hosting all the Poetry Friday goodness.  She has a seedling poem that is an amazing request of the seedling. I love her photos of the mother tree and the seedling.

Her post ties in so well because today I had the opportunity to do a "flash in the pan" poetry lesson with fifth graders (they are the highly capable and gifted all day class at the school I was subbing at in the library. Their class is only thirty minutes in length with time for book checkout.
I wanted to showcase the new book by Carol Labuzzetta, Picture Perfect Poetry and have students write to my photos from the book, thus creating their own ekphrastic poetry. My style is to offer a prompt and also allow the freedom to explore and play with their own poetry. I used a poetry frame for "I Am" and had them pretend they were an animal looking at the two  photos  I have in the book. 
I feel like this class had fun!

Poetry Friday: Week 18, Sharing Student Work

5/2/2024

 
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Happy May!  Buffy at Buffy Silverman is slithering in as host with a poem about a snake seen recently at  Saugatuck State Park.

​Today I am sharing a couple slide shows from two fourth grades and one first grade class  at my former school.  Did you know that when you use Padlet, you can create a slide show in an easy way!
Mr. Canning's class (1st grade) and Mrs. Martin's class (4th grade) created color poems. Unfortunately, I didn't photo their color squares .  I had Mrs. Fisher's class (4th grade) create I am poems.


2024 National Poetry Month Saturday Matinee, Featuring the Work of Texas Women's University Students, Week 3

4/20/2024

 
I've been teaching a poetry for children and young adults class to MLIS students at TWU. It's my second year. Thanks to the venerable Dr. Sylvia Vardell, who taught before me, I have had an excellent curriculum to use. 

For their midterm, students are asked to create a video of a poem which several poetry friends have donated.
Originally, I was to teach for just a year and then last fall, I was asked to return and teach.  The class was returned to the program.  Because of the late notice, I have only had ten students this year. They are a wonderful dedicated group.  
​You know how I love featuring student work of all ages. Today I am featuring:
  • “Praise to Fireflies” by Rose Cappelli, video by Alma P
  • “Bats” by Carol Labuzzetta, video by Haley B.

​Previous Videos:
  • "What Does Your Mood Ring Say?" by Jay Brazeau  video created by Ashley M.
  • "At the Park by Sally Murphy" video created by Alisha N.
  • "Grape"  written by Sandy Brehl, video created by Alisha G.
    "Sea Dance" written by Theresa Gaughan, created by Miranda F

Next Friday I will be featuring a tribute to the newly released book, Bless Our Pets by Lee Bennett Hopkins.
On Saturday, the last four videos of the TWU students will be shared.

2024 National Poetry Month Saturday Matinee, Featuring the Work of Texas Women's University Students

4/6/2024

 
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, I've been teaching a poetry for children and young adults to  MLIS students at TWU . It's my second year doing so.  Thanks to the venerable Dr. Sylvia Vardell, who taught before me, I have had excellent curriculum to use. 

For their midterm, students are asked to create a video of a poem which several poetry friends have donated.
Originally, I was to teach for just a year and then last fall, I was asked to return and teach.  The class was returned to the program.  Because of the late notice, I have only had ten students this year. They are a wonderful dedicated group.  

​You know how I love featuring student work of all ages, Today I am featuring Sea Dance by Theresa Gaughan created by Miranda F. and Grape by Sandy Brehl created by Alisha G.

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"Sea Dance" written by Theresa Gaughan, created by Miranda F.
"Grape"  written by Sandy Brehl, video created by Alisha G.

Poetry Friday, Week 13: Very Late Edition about National Poetry Month

3/29/2024

 
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Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect is hosting last Friday's Poetry Friday.  Was subbing in a first grade classroom. It was just before their spring break. They were chatty. I was tired and I couldn't get it done for Friday or even yesterday. But since tomorrow begins National Poetry Month. I want to share what will be happening here.

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I am so excited to be featuring these authors.  And so thrilled to be sharing ten poetry videos created by my ten Texas Women's University students featuring poems by some of our Poetry Friday Poets.  There is still time to share your favorite (or two poet or poems. 

Stay tuned. Tuesday, April 2, 2024, I will have the next line for the 2024 Progressive Poem.
April 1 Patricia Franz at Reverie
April 2 Jone MacCulloch
April 3 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
April 4 Leigh Anne Eck at A Day in the Life
April 5 Irene at Live Your Poem
April 6 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
April 7 Marcie Atkins
April 8 Ruth at There is No Such Thing as a God Forsaken Town
April 9 Karen Eastlund
April 10 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
April 11 Buffy Silverman
April 12 Linda Mitchell
April 13 Denise Krebs at Dare to Care
April 14 Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
April 15 Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities
April 16 Sarah Grace Tuttle
April 17 Heidi Mordhorst at my juicy little universe
April 18 Tabatha at Opposite of Indifference
April 19 Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core
April 20 Tricia Stohr-Hunt at The Miss Rumphius Effect
April 21 Janet, hosted here at Reflections on the Teche
April 22 Mary Lee Hahn at A(nother) Year of Reading
April 23 Tanita Davis at (fiction, instead of lies)
April 24 Molly Hogan at Nix the Comfort Zone
April 25 Joanne Emery at Word Dancer

April 26 Karin Fisher-Golton at Still in Awe
April 27
April 28 Dave at Leap of Dave
April 29 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
April 30 Michelle Kogan at More Art for All

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