Jivey picked one of my favorite topics this week: Poetry!
It's one of my very favorite things to teach students-and I spend time on it all year long!
I usually start out by showing them an example of what we are going to do, or show them a SMART Exchange lesson.
This week, we are going to be focusing on Haikus, so I'll be showing this (yes, I know it's grade 1, but it is a good intro-since most of my kids have never heard about it before!) and this.
After we learn a little about the type of poetry, we brainstorm a list of ideas we could use to write.
Then I send them to work!
They usually do a rough draft, and we edit it-they do it on a nice piece of paper and illustrate.
They love doing it too! Our poetry lessons are usually a fun, quick lesson that they kids enjoy-they always ask if they can do another one!
Smiles and Sunshine,
Kaitlyn
My fourth graders always seem to love poetry as well. I always love it when they ask if they can "do another one" after working on a particular type of poem. Yes! Yes! Yes!
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Fit to be Fourth
I love the idea web that you write on the board :) Great ideas.
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bookandbliss
Your poems are coming out great! My students are having a blast with poetry too! :)
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Pinkadots Elementary
These look great! Seasons are always fun to write about. :) Thanks for linking up!
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I like that you are doing a lot as a class first! My fifth graders need that too! I think it helps them get the ideas out and get started if we do a class poem or brainstorming together. I also have quite the poetry collection and try to read, read, read to them as much as possible!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your ideas!
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Amanda
My Shoe String Life
Thanks so much for sharing! I love to see kids' samples... :0)
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Sarah @ Hoots N' Hollers