Good morning, everyone! Bill, I love your idea with the index cards and the golden ticket! I would love to do that. Thank you for sharing it.
We have been going to the computer lab to read silly poems and rate them. See Giggle Poetry, click on Read and Rate, and I ask them poems to look for poetic devices and write them down. (examples of similes, metaphors, personification, etc.) We have done this various ways. They write down the whole poem, or print it and underline the devices, or just write title poem, author, and line indicating the device. Then we share our favorite poems in class later on. We have laughed and laughed. They have written some fun poems. Check these out and let me know what you think. http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ Another cool site is: http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.php Home page-check it out http://www.poetry4kids.com/howto did you see--how to write funny poetry lessons? This was helpful. http://www.poetry4kids.com/games We have played some of these poetry games. Lucinda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill IVEY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.poetry4kids.com/index.phpschool.org> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:00 AM Subject: [LIT] poetry activities > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/760 - Release Date: 4/13/2007 > 8:04 PM > > _______________________________________________ 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
