Category: Student Work

NPM2023: "It's Recess Time Again"

4/9/2023

Today's poem is "It's Recess Time Again" by Janet Clare Fagal.

Poem video created by Araceli O.
Please drop by and drop a comment on the great poetry videos produced by my TWU students. They are posted daily.
I am putting together a poetry prize for those who show love to these projects. I will draw a name at the end of the month.

NPM2023: "Upside Down Feelings"

4/8/2023

Today's poem is "Upside Down Feelings" by Elisabeth Norton.
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Poem Video created by Sheila G.

Please drop by and drop a comment on the great poetry videos produced by my TWU students. They are posted daily.
I am putting together a poetry prize for those who show love to these projects. I will draw a name at the end of the month.

NPM2023: "Balloons"

4/6/2023

Today's poem is "Ballons" by Karen Elise Finch.
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Poem Video created by Gabrielle M.

NPM2023: "New Bike"

4/5/2023

Today's poem is "New Bike" by Janet Clare Fagel.

Poem Video created by Jessica B.

NPM2023: "Tent"

4/4/2023

Today's poem is "Tent" by Marcie Flinchum Atkins.

Poem Video created by Margaret D.

Poetry Friday, Week 9: Student Work

3/2/2023

Tanita at {fiction, instead of lies} is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She writes of seeds, writing and transformation. Today, I had the opportunity to guest teach in a fifth grade. We read from Winter Bees by Joyce Sidman and then wrote our own "deeper thinking" poems about winter. The class and I talked about trying to create a turn at the end of the pome. One student did a good job with it. Can you spot it? The students said I read the poem with a witchy voice.

You're Invited to Create a Classic Found Poem

Poetry Friday, Week 22: Student Poetry

6/3/2022

Welcome to Poetry Friday. Karen at Karen Edmisten* is hosting the round up.

I'm in somewhat late. I had a few poems from a fifth grade class I subbed in recently. So I thought I would share them.

Poetry Friday, Week 20: Fifth Grade Student Work

5/19/2022

It's Poetry Friday and Carmela at Teaching Authors has all the details for today's fabulous poems. At Teaching Authors, there's a sneak peak of a very cool poetry STEAM project and a poem from Imperfect II.

I have been able to sub in the fifth grade classes at my former school. These students are pretty special as they were first graders when I retired. Some of them were in my "Poetry Rocks" afterschool club. And when I've subbed during the last four years, they have had poetry lessons. I have watched them grow as poets.
These two classes did the Color Poem and Art project with a 4 x4 square of a monochromatic collage. It's been fun to bring in some of the papers I use in my art for the students to choose from for their project.

Poetry Friday, Week 18: Skinny Poems Inspired by the book, Things We Do

5/6/2022

Welcome to Poetry Friday, hosted by Jama at Jama's Alphabet Soup. She has a fabulous post with Mom filled poems and remembering her mom is photos.
I love this: "What we wouldn’t give for just one more sip of our mothers’ unconditional love." Absolutely, Jama.

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of subbing in a library and the teacher librarian asked if I would do poetry with the fourth and fifth grade classes. Who's going to turn that down? I've been thinking about ways to use Sylvia Vardell's and Janet Wong's, Things We Do, as mentor text. When you have to teach in a thirty minute class, it's almost like a poetry slam.
I created a quick presentation of four slides, share a couple of poems from the book. (I really love Jack Prelutsky's "Eat"), introduced and guided the students through writing a skinny poem. One thing about these poems is flexibility. Technically, a skinny poem only allows for one word in lines 3, 4,5 and 7, 8, 9 but we flex that rule little.

Congrats to Karen Edmisten. She won a copy of Imperfect II. Please email me your address.

Poetry Friday, Week 9: Late Edition

3/4/2022

Poetry Friday is being rounded up by Kat at Kathryn Apel today. Kat is sharing the release of her new book, What Snail Knows amid a stormy week of weather and war in Ukraine.

Today I headed to the school of a teacher library friend to teach in her library for half day. I was greeted by the school principal. "Would I please teach in a fifth grade classroom? Twenty-two staff people out and about half the jobs unfilled, " she said. I don't really teach in classrooms outside my former school but I said yes as I was scheduled to see only two classes for library. I told the principal that would be teaching a poetry lesson. She was fine with that decision. She gave me the class list, informed me that there would be an assistant in the room and that she and the associate principal would stop in on occasion.

Taylor Mali's Slam Mad Lib Poetry

In February, I attended via Zoom a workshop with Taylor Mali. I have been itching to try this poetry lesson, Slam Mad Lib Poetry .
I decided that with this class a brief lesson on concrete nouns versus non-concrete nouns (thank you, Paulann Peterson for you workshop)and describing words would be helpful.
Then we used the directions by Mali to create our poems. Students came to me when finished so that we could get them on Padlet. For me, Padlet, provides a visual and way to do a quick revision. It was a great morning.

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