'Poetry in the Air'

Hello everyone,

I am anxious to share with you today a few pictures of the "Poetry in the Air" event at my school.

  If you read my two previous posts you would have seen that my students were working on writing “I Wish...” poems.

Well, yesterday they got to recite and display samples of their work for their parents and fellow students to see, at our first “Poetry Day”.



Samples of students'  " I Wish"poems on display.

My students enjoyed this experience.

 

Other types of poems presented were; List poems, Haikus, Cinquains and Limericks.

 

The First Year Infants displayed their 'List Poems' on air balloons.

The Standard Two class displayed their "Acrostic Poems' on rainbows.

The Standard One class displayed their 'Haiku Poems' on raindrops.

The Standard Four displayed their 'Limerick Poems' with an airplane theme.

The Standard Three displayed their ' Cinquain Poems' on hands in the air.

The “Poetry in the Air” event was a great event which helped to expand the literacy activities of our students.

Hope you are inspired!!



"I Wish" my mummy....

For their Mother’s Day craft, my students wrote an “I wish” poem to their mother. This was an excellent extension to our Poetry writing activity in class now.

During the whole class instruction, I introduced them to the structure of the poem:

I wish my mummy says__________________

I wish my mummy loves _________________

I wish my mummy gets __________________

I wish my mummy, Happy Mother’s Day!

First we discussed as a class the appropriate words they could include in each line. Then, they wrote their first draft of the poem in their Poetry Book.

 

A student's first draft.

 

 

 

 

 

 



A student's first draft.

After editing their work, students were presented with a copy of the template they would use.
When the students finally completed their poems, it was then glued to construction paper with a scroll design.
 

Completed work.



Completed work

 



Here is one Mother’s Day scroll.

 

 

Hope you are inspired!!

"I Wish" Poems

Hey Guys!!! I am back.

Today I want to share some “I Wish” Poems my class and I have been working on.



This is a picture of the 'I Wish" poem I initially wrote to introduce my students to this type of poem.

This poem allowed my students to view what this type of poem looks like.

·        They noted that each line must begin with ‘I Wish”

·        They noted that all lines did not need to rhyme.

·        They noted that the “I Wish” poem could provide clues to an overall theme.

 

After reading the poem, to identify sight words and other words they knew, students wrote the poem in their Poetry Books.

 

 

 

 

 

We have continued to write “I wish” poems each week. The students also draw pictures to go with each poem.

 

 

 

 

 

I am having some trouble uploading other samples of my students' poems. I will add to this post later.

Hope you are inspired!!