All through April we study poetry in Writers Workshop. Students write poems using the crafts of rhymes, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. We used poetry all year during Shared Reading to help learn phonics and increase fluency. Today was the culmination of all the students work.
First students started as a group reading - It's Poetry Time By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
"It’s poem o’clock.
Time for a rhyme—
tick-tock
ding-dong
bing-bong
or
chime.
Poems are
wistful
wish-filled
sublime—
Come.
Unlock a minute
for
poetry time."
Then students explained the purpose behind using poetry in the classroom and explained that this why we believe you should always keep a poem in your pocket. At which point students read, Keep A Poem in Your Pocket By: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
"Keep a poem in your pocket
and a picture in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed
The little poem will sing to you
the little picture bring to you
a dozen dreams to dance to you
at night when you're in bed
So-
keep a picture in your pocket
and a poem in your head
annd you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed."
and a picture in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed
The little poem will sing to you
the little picture bring to you
a dozen dreams to dance to you
at night when you're in bed
So-
keep a picture in your pocket
and a poem in your head
annd you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed."
Finally, students "mingled" around the classroom reading the poems in their pockets to parents and administration. The poems in their pockets were a mixture of poems they wrote and those we read throughout the year during Shared.
Along with the "mingling" students' BioPoems with self portraits and I Wish Poems were displayed for students to read.
BioPeoms:
I wish poems:
