Tuesday Tidbits: It’s Coming-National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is a week away. Here’s a sneak peak at what I will be doing as well as some great happenings in the kidlit world for National Poetry Month. April is our state testing month so it...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: City I Love by Lee Bennett Hopkins
City I Love by Lee Bennett Hopkins is a delightful collection of poems about city life. A great read as I prepare to start my spring break next week. San Francisco, London, Rio, Tokyo and Cairo are...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: Student Poems
We are back in the swing of things after spring break. Fifth Grade worked on some poems styled after the William Carlos Williams’ poem “This is Just to Say” This is just to say I have eaten the box...
View ArticleFibonacci Friday
In honor of National Poetry Month and the fabulous Fibonacci form, introduced by Greg, here are Fibonacci poems by a kindergarten class. The teacher saw the instructions in the library and decided to...
View ArticleTuesday Tidbits
This marks my 251 post on the blog! Hooray! Today my morning begins with a meeting at the district office to discuss the library budget for the coming year. It will not be pretty, The one thing I know...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: Color Poems
Third graders have been writing some color poems for the last two weeks. These are from some of the boys in Ms SIms class: White is the color of snow It smells like fresh snow It tastes like ice cubes...
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