Welcome to Spiritual Journey Thursday (late edition) and Poetry Friday. How are we into week ten of the year? I'm a tad late as yesterday's dubbing job was a whirlwind of checking in books, meeting with students. Then leaving early as my husband has a dental emergency which requires the pulling of a tooth. so unexpected.
This month Ramona from Pleasures from the Page asks us to reflect on 'Gather". I instantly thought about how the Poetry Friday community gathers each week to share from our little corners of the world. We gather words family friends We gather observations the weather the seasons We gather goodness faith wonder creating poems from moments of this life ~jone rush macculloch, 2024 For Poetry Friday, Laura at Laura Purdie Salas is gathering us all and sharing news of her latest book, Oskar’s Voyage . it looks to be a very cool adventure. I have had the opportunity to teach poetry in two different classrooms in the last month. The first graders were to write snowman poems in January but we were snowed out. So when February arrived, the teacher asked if it was still winter and could we do the snowman poems. we also created our snow people. He has seventeen students but not everyone was in the room when we wrote the poems.
Later in the week, I was asked to sub in a third grade class where they had been working similes (it shows). I used a poem from my WIP as a mentor text on How to Have a Friend.
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Matt at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme is hosting Poetry Friday this week. Last week, I was in Mrs. Fisher's fourth grade class. We did the "I Come From" poems like last week and I'll share in the next few weeks. We also had time to "Poetry Play: Playing with Pantoums". I had five table teams make word tickets for four fall categories: Activities, Feelings, Colors, and Foods. Then each table team wrote two sentences, one from a category that I randomly chose for them. Then as a class, we gathered around and decided the order. I made a suggestion to add "In Fall" on some of the sentences. We then took a look at the order and we decided that switched the first two lines would help the flow, we also took out some extra words. Here is the finished poem: In Fall: A Pantoum By Mrs.Fisher’s Fourth Graders In fall, I sit in the leaves and drink warm apple juice Go into a corn maze, then jump into leaves on a farm I love seeing the r- orange and yellow leaves In fall, I feel gloomy about the cold weather that‘s coming Go into a corn maze, then jump into leaves on a farm I turn on the fire and I feel cozy and warm In fall, I feel gloomy about the cold weather that‘s coming So I get all cozy and warm I turn on the fire and I feel cozy and warm In fall, I love making turkey crafts So I get all cozy and warm I fell into a room of chicken pie, some apple juice in the corner of my eye In fall, I love making turkey crafts Me and my family love making sticky chicken for Thanksgiving dinner I fell into a room of chicken pie, some apple juice in the corner of my eye Some people eat pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving and some people don’t Me and my family love making sticky chicken for Thanksgiving dinner I love seeing the r-orange and yellow leaves Some people eat pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving and some people don’t In fall, I sit in the leaves and drink warm apple juice Are You Ready for Spooky Season?Stay tuned! Did you have fun with Spring's Classic Found Poem Palooza? You are invited to another found poem spectacular palooza, spooky version. Do you have a favorite horror or scary book, poem or story? Maybe a Poe, a HP Lovecraft, Dracula or Frankenstein? It doesn't need to be long. From The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe: uplifted my eyes to decayed trees shaking from my spirit On October 27, 2023, I will feature a Padlet with a Spooky Season Found Poem. Stay Tuned.
Jama at Jama's Alphabet Soup has Poetry Friday hosting duties. She shares a couple of fun poems from Scottish poet Helena Nelson.
Last week, I had the pleasure of guest teaching in a fifth grade class. The beginning of the year is a great opportunity to write "I Come From" poems. I tried something I came across during the #SealeyChallenge. I read Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge. Great book in which she talks about creating "word tickets". So I adapted the idea and passed out little papers for students to "prime the pump" by coming up with words for the poem:
Are You Ready for Spooky Season?
Stay tuned! Did you have fun with Spring's Classic Found Poem Palooza? Next week, I have an invitation for another found poem spectacular palooza, spooky version. Do you have a favorite horror or scary book, poem or story? Maybe a Poe, a HP Lovecraft, Dracula or Frankenstein?
On October 27, 2023, I will feature a Padlet with a Spooky Season Found Poem. Stay Tuned. Thank you Michelle at Michelle Kogan for the hosting duties this week. Her watercolors are full of summer juiciness as she illustrates a Spotted Sandpiper. It's Thursday morning and I am prepping this post because this evening oldest grand girl GRADUATES from high school. It's hard to fathom that she's old enough. On Monday, I had the opportunity to teach the "I AM" poetry lesson to the class I had originally prepared the lesson for and ended up sick. It gave me an opportunity to try the process by writing the poem first and creating the hand collage second. I feel like it made a difference. PLUS my former assistant gifted me with animal magazines so students had better access to animal pictures (still missing some but definitely a key for better collages). Where I had two days with the other class, I only had the morning with this class as the afternoon was filled with Field Day (and it was almost 90 degrees!). I started with a slide show. I was able to pull some student work from the previous class that I share as mentor poems. Don't you love the bearded dragon? I didn't really see it when I glued that hand and poem originally. I had to share as an option of what to do if your animal wasn't available. It's the end of year and I wish I had all the poems from the second class but I was able to get a few. The following three spoke to me. Because I didn't have the time to mount the poems like the previous class, I had them transfer their poem and then glue their hand one. So it's another option for older grades. Mark your calendars for June 30.
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