Each year, we celebrate National Poetry Month in April during Library classes. This year, every student from kindergarten through the fifth grade read and wrote some form of poetry.
Third, fourth and fifth grade students created an iPoetry manual that taught and gave examples of various forms of poetry including: Cinquain, Sensory, Number, Haiku, Limerick, Alliteration, and Concrete.
Second grade students read the book, Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry by Joyce Sidman. They created Concrete rainbow poems, where each color of the rainbow contains words that are related to that color.
A concrete rainbow poem created by a second grade student during Poetry Month 2013 in the Library-Media Center.
First grade students listened to the story A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams and then created their own Freestyle poem that was a river filled with words.
Kindergarten students enjoyed listening to books about springtime and the month of April. Then they created an Acrostic poem about April. To do this, the kindergarten students brainstormed words about spring. Then they each chose 5 cards from 5 different piles, each card beginning with one of the letters from the word, April.
Click on the images below to view enlarged examples of the poetry on display in the Library hallway during the month of April.
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- A concrete rainbow poem created by a second grade student during Poetry Month 2013 in the Library-Media Center.
