Poetry Friday, Week 9: Late Edition

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.

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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. 
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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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