Hi! So in the U.S., it's National Poetry Month! What's going on in and around your classrooms?
My school is having a "golden ticket" search - we hide poems around the school,and whoever finds them has to share them with the school and wins a Wonka bar. I also had fun with my kids yesterday doing a surrealistic poem - after working on the definition, I asked them to do automatic writing onto index cards (one word or phrase per index cards) for approximately two or three minutes in response to an image I showed them. I then collected the cards in a bag, mixed them up, pulled them out and read them in that random order. The kids thought it was really cool and want to do it again. We decided next time, there wouldn't be a common stimulus - we want to see if there will still be logic of a kind (which we did get in yesterday's poem). Next?! Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
