All the fourth and fifth grade students at Suquamish are all mixed up for an hour each afternoon for the next couple of weeks for poetry sessions with seven different teachers. I taught my first session today with a handful of students from each of the fourth and fifth grade classrooms. My students scattered, four staying with me and the rest distributed out to the other teachers.
Each teacher is presenting a lesson on a different kind of poetry. I am teaching rhyming poetry that creates an image, a mental picture.
After students returned to the classroom, they had a few minutes to share their poems with each other for revising and editing suggestions. Then a few of them asked if they could read their poems out loud. We had a poem for two voices, a rap with beat box accompaniment, a couple of acrostics, and a couple of the rhyming poems from my group.
At the end of the two weeks, I want the students to pick their THREE best poems to turn in for a grade. We looked at the rubric today. (I posted it on the Elementary Materials page.)
Each teacher is presenting a lesson on a different kind of poetry. I am teaching rhyming poetry that creates an image, a mental picture.
After students returned to the classroom, they had a few minutes to share their poems with each other for revising and editing suggestions. Then a few of them asked if they could read their poems out loud. We had a poem for two voices, a rap with beat box accompaniment, a couple of acrostics, and a couple of the rhyming poems from my group.
At the end of the two weeks, I want the students to pick their THREE best poems to turn in for a grade. We looked at the rubric today. (I posted it on the Elementary Materials page.)
