Happy New Year – and almost to the 100th day of school at TES!  Getting around to post to the blog has been harder than I thought at the beginning of the year, my apologies.  I’m going to try to continue to post bi-weekly.  Thank you for those of you who check it out!

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Poetry is what we have been studying in reading and writing this month.  Students are working hard to recognize the differences between poetry and prose.  Poetry is a challenge for us as we have been working hard to write sentences.  Getting out of that structure has pushed many of us to really think hard and grapple with challenge.

 

So far in our unit we have worked on the following types/devices of poetry:

• rhyming
• alliteration
• acrostic

 

Here are some examples of poetry from our students this month….

 

 

Sun

Sun, hot, hot, hot

It’s burning me a lot.

It even burns my metal pot

hot, hot, hot

It’s burning me a lot.

–Samson Charron

 

Pokemon

Pokemon is a game

battle

battle

battle

battle everyone you know!

–Jay Hill

 

Love

Loving

Only you

Valentine

Forever

–Orayna Pleake

 

A ridiculous rooster runs up to Ruth, who was riding a raven.

–Benjamin Barton

 

These examples are great! Thanks for taking a look.  If you’re interested in exploring poetry more at home feel free to check out this great site: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/index.aspx

~Ms. Gray