Schramlet Poetry Corner

As part of our Summer of Unbored Kids - I shamelessly asked for help in occupying afternoons for my kids.

Today we invited Miss Tammy to share a skill with us.  Miss Tammy already has a paid teaching gig, as a 1st grade teacher in another town. She came armed with a micro-lesson in writing poetry!

Here are a few glimpses into her lesson and the process of writing poetry.

Gracie says, "poetry is a little story about something"  Ella says, "poetry is about a character"  Peter says, "poetry is something like a little sentence, but it's more like a song.  You're supposed to look at stuff in a new fresh way!  That means that you have to picture it in your head differently."

After seeing some examples of poetry, they were invited to look at a group of items and challenged to look at those ordinary objects in a fresh new way.

Here Peter looks at a pine cone in a new, fresh way.

Here Peter writes about some objects.

Ella's work (Tammy's handwriting)

Looking at a rock - Ella's thought - "A big snowball smashed"  A shell : "A hermit crab playing around"  A cookie cutter: "A shining star in the sky"  A honey stick: "A honey hive  bees playing around"  A plastic bag clip : "A little fish in a plastic bag"

Gracie's work: A small funnel : " a bell ringing for school, all the children come inside"  a sea shell : " a rolled up blanket for an ant he's playing hide and seek"  a beaded bracelet: "a rope with beads on a kite.  holding the kite so it won't blow away"

 Peter:  a honey stick :" a water fountain by an ant playing"  a small figure : a man pulling his donkey on the sea"

 Final poem.  The Sun By Gracie
a big
round ball
hot
as fire
and so
so
bright

 Ella reads her poem, with snapping applause!

 Gracie reads her poem.

Peter's poem.
Cotton Candy By Pete
In a plate
of cotton candy
there
is the
sun

The Sun's Noodles
By Pete
There's a bowl
of noodles
in the sky
It was
upside
down