Poetry Friday, Week 24: "I Am" Poems, Part II

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.

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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.
Irene Latham will be hosting Roundup. She’s doing a “Moon in June” theme. So find your favorite moon poem (yours or someone else’s) or maybe a memory or photo to share.