Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Poetry Month


April is National Poetry month and my students and I are celebrating it by creating poetry books that will include various types of poems. For the past few weeks, we've been learning and reviewing a plethora of different types of poems. We've covered word patterns (a personal & class favorite!), Lanterns, Terse Verse, ABC Poetry, Quatrains, Cinquains, Feustrains (just kidding, wanted to make sure you are THINKING while you are reading), Couplets and more....much, much more! The students are getting quite good at creating the various types of poetry and I hope they respond to this post like never before. I am challenging them (and the other readers of this blog, thank you "others") to create at least 30 different poems in the comment section of this post. Why 30? For the 30 days of April that is National Poetry Month. Need some helped with what types of poetry to create? Here are two websites to help you get started! Just click on them as they are links! Giggle Poetry Poetry for Kids


There are only 17 days of the month left (if you count today). Can the readers of this blog meet the challenge? Only time will tell. Thanks in advance to all who post their poems, and enjoy creating those poems! We can't wait to read them!

15 comments:

  1. I just might have a few up my sleeve right now.
    this is one called fire

    Fiery madness
    Incredible quickness
    Resting is not possible
    Every marshmallow must be burned

    Here's a terse verse I wrote

    A row of pretty things you put in your hair
    Row bow

    And last but not lest, ABC poetry ( hey that kinda rhymes!)

    Anybody home?
    Because I am locked in this dark room
    Cats are meowing and
    Dogs are barking scarcely outside
    Do I have to go to bed yet?

    Did you like them? ^_^

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  2. Well Done Bailey! We are off to a great start. Here is a couplet I created about my very social class this year. It's called:

    Social Students

    As I look out at my students, I see a social bunch,
    They sure do love their talking, especially at lunch.

    Talking out at recess, and talking during snack,
    They are talking, talking, talking, and it's hard to turn my back.

    I wonder what they talk about, and am curious to see,
    Who or what they're talking about, I sure hope it's not me.

    They use Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter, to make their talking easy,
    Is the stuff they discuss important, or it is just real cheesey.

    These kids just keep a talking, like it's their one and only job,
    If I could just locate their volume, and turn down that precious knob.

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  3. I have a couplet today.

    Skatebosrding!

    I was skating down a hill
    with my new friend bill

    As I start to fly
    I will say "Bye Bye"

    And when I'm in the air
    I will be soo scared

    That I don't fall
    Into the Mall

    Because then.. people would see,people
    would want,
    Then it would probably start to Haunt

    When I am done I will find my friend Bill
    Then we will go down that one hill.

    By: David!

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  4. The Twins have a great team.
    They are 6-3
    I love to see them play
    I wish it was me.

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  5. My ABC poetry is

    Eating a banana then
    Fishing in the
    Gardens pond. Do you know
    How to fish
    and find a awesome banana?

    By: Summer

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  6. "Quiet!" the teacher yelled
    Really they just keep talking
    Students chit chatting
    Today, Tomorrow
    All day long

    I think that's ABC poetry but since I wasn't here I don't know, I just looked It up!
    Kerstin

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  7. Thank You Summer, David, and Coleman! Three different awesome poems from three different awesome kids! We are well on our way to meeting the goal of 30 poems to celebrate the 30 days of National Poetry Month. Write on!

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  8. Here are some poems I made hope you like them!

    Here is my synonym poem

    boys
    weird, freaky, very icky
    Some boys are stickey

    heres the terse verse

    What has strait A's but is the class clown
    school fool

    final poem is the Exaggeration poem

    Bouncyest ball in the world

    I found a super bouncy ball
    It was the greatest of them all

    It bounced once but never came back down
    A kid said theres a ball in space I made a frown

    It wrote me a letter every planet it passed
    It found a new galaxie the last

    So now I don't have the bouncyest ball
    Of them all

    Hope that helped with the journey to 30 poems on the blog

    -Lyric

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  9. Diamonte

    Chalk
    round, dusty
    drawing, writing, creating
    kid, teacher, parent, people
    listening, speaking, whispering
    loud, funny
    Talk

    By Coutney

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  10. Terse Verse
    Whats a white duck that's tired?
    A yawn swan

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  11. Here is a Class Clerihew

    There was a girl named Pearl
    Who really had to Hurl
    Because she grabbed a broom
    to clean the dust-filled room


    -Leah ;D

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  12. Here's a Haiku

    Sun
    Tan me and burn me
    You are as bright as you are
    Please don't go bye-bye

    Kerstin

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  13. Here is a Terse Verse I wrote:
    A big amrried fella??
    A chubby hubby

    Here is a ABC poetry I wrote:
    Just
    Kidding need a
    Loving friend
    Mia?
    Here you go!

    Here is a Haiku:
    Rain
    Rainy very gloomy outside
    can't play outside it's to wet
    rain rain go away

    Here is a synonym poem:
    Hockey
    scoring, sliding down the ice
    dang!! she already scored twice

    Hope you enjoyed them!

    Schultzy

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  14. Sydney ABC pome:
    Sydney
    Thought
    Unicorns had
    *Virsuses

    :)Ady

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  15. Exaggeration poem

    Monster!
    There is a monster that's under my bed,
    he is blue, purple, green, and red.
    He scares me every night and day,
    even when I'm in the bay.
    The floor in my house is very creaky,
    that's what makes the night more freaky.
    My room is black in the dark nights,
    that's why I use 27 night lights.
    He loves to eat people that run freely,
    hopefully he will never want to eat me!

    ABC poem

    Silly stegosaurus's
    Silly stegosaurus's
    Toot every day
    Under a tree with
    Volga the lizard
    While laying down.

    Synonym poems

    Bugs
    Flying, buzzing, annoying at night,
    gives me the creeps and a big fright!

    Disney
    Rides, coasters, that's what Walt made
    after a while colors fade.

    Clerihew

    Betty Pipper
    There's a girl, last name Pipper
    When she was three, got bit by a viper.
    In 1960 her dad was a hippie
    Everywhere he went he yelled "Yippee!"

    Acrostic poem

    Sideline
    Outside cut
    Croif
    Coach
    Expedition games
    Ref.

    By: Morgan

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