Join the Poetry Friday round-up is hosted today by Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge.
My celebration of National Poetry Month with my students has been interrupted many times by testing, field trips, and now spring break, but this week I had a few days to work with my youngest students, grades 1-3, on origami and poetry.
In a teacher workshop last week, I learned how to make an origami fox. I brought the activity to my little ones and we wrote Fib poems about foxes. A Fib poem follows a syllable count that corresponds to the first 6 numbers of the Fibonacci series, 1,1,2,3,5,8.
Here is Erin’s. She put her origami fox in a snow scene and made the poem appear in a flip-open book.
Origami fox in snow
Fib poem by Erin.
On Thursday, we made origami envelopes, read I Haiku You, and wrote love haiku. Some favorite teachers are going to be very happy.
Best teacher ever
makes origami poems
shine in the classroom.
Reflections on the Teche 