Poems, poems, poems

 Baskets of poetry books greeted the students on Monday. In April we will have fun reading and writing poetry. This week we are reading, reading, reading - quietly and aloud. We are looking at what the poets write about and how they write. 

We created our own poems using an interesting technique. We used the titles of books to combine words and phrases to express ideas. As a result we had book spine poems.

Here are three examples from me:

Boy

So you want to be an explorer?
Jump right in
Splish, splash
Wish for a fish

Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky

Good sports

The great frog race

Splish, splash

Bing, bang, boing

Handsprings

The frogs wore red suspenders

The long, long letter,
this is just to say
wonderful words.
Days like this
I like to be me.