Poet's Corner

For the months of January and Feburary

I did a poetry unit with my students

in our writing workshop time!

Together we grew

in our love

and appreciation

for poetry!

We learned that poetry can be fun,

poetry is all around us,

poetry can be used to express how we feel

or what we see

and anyone can be a poet!

We attempted to bring poetry

to everyone on campus

through our Living Anthology Project.

We turned our campus into a poetry anthology

by posting poems in common places

around campus for people to enjoy

as they go about their daily activities.

We read poems,

wrote poems,

acted poems,

drew poems!

In the end,

each student created a collection

of their very own poems

that they wrote over the course of 5 weeks.

We ended the unit by hosting a poetry cafe

and inviting our parents to a special poetry reading.