April was National Poetry month, which meant, you guessed it, poetry in the library. We read it, wrote it, sang it, listened to it, and shared it. Boy, were we busy. Most recently, though, our building honored Poem in Your Pocket Day on Thursday. Although not everyone physically had a poem in their pocket, we still found ways to celebrate the day. Our primary students had guest poetry readers, and our intermediate students took some time to share the poems they wrote or liked during their April library session. Prior to this culminating activity, here's how each of our grade levels celebrated poetry in library this month... | Assistant Superintendent Nedved (above) was one of our guest readers. |
*1st grade used Kenn Nesbitt's I Don't Know What to do Today to choral read and act out through charades; then also heard a twist on some familiar nursery rhymes with Jon Sceizcka's Truckery Rhymes
*2nd grade completed four stations: becoming fluent with a selected poem, creating an illustration for their selected poem, looking through various poetry books, and building poems (poem fill in the blanks)
*3rd grade focused on acrostic poems and challenged students by introducing the concept of using the topic word to create a sentence, not just isolated ideas after reading Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli and Dan Brewer
*4th grade created color kite poems with similes using Blue is My Happy by Jessica Young as a source for inspiration
*5th grade learned about and wrote haikus and their 5-7-5 syllable structure; 5th grade also finally got to play some football and practiced their knowledge of locating nonfiction books