Hello Everyone,
Even though the majority of school librarians aren’t able to see their students face-to-face, April is still National Poetry Month! The elementary librarians in my district are working together to make choice boards of activities for students to complete during their weekly virtual “Library” time, and we’ve decided to celebrate poetry.
There are lots of awesome kid-friendly poems at PoetryMinute.org, and one of my colleagues found an online magnetic poetry kit where students can write their own poems. I made the sample poem below.
The poem I wrote with the Kids Magnetic Poetry kit.
Last, but not least, we’re giving students the opportunity to try their hands at writing acrostic poems. I made a brief video to explain this particular type of poetry and demonstrate how to write an acrostic with a few examples and a step-by-step. The video is on my YouTube channel and is embedded below.