National Poetry Month 2017
Over at The Poem Farm, Amy is selecting a crayon from her box of Crayola Crayons to inspire a daily poem. For our classroom poem-a-day, I chose to do color cinquains for the letter C. Instructions include using the cinquain form of 2,4,6,8,2 syllable count as well as adding a metaphor and simile for the color chosen.
I decided to write one as a model. I closed my eyes and picked out “Goldenrod.” Of course I thought of the wildflower. I drew in my journal alongside other words for goldenrod. I did some research and discovered the medicinal properties of goldenrod. There seems to be no end to my trail. Metaphors were hard to make fit to the syllable count. This work helps me relate to what I am asking my students to do. Not as easy as it seems.
Golden
sea of sunshine
dusting fairy brushes
Throw some on your dinner salad
Aster
by Margaret Simon
Andrew knew he would be missing class today due to testing, so yesterday we wrote one together on the color dandelion. Here’s a link to our poem. Others will be added during the day on our Kidblog site.
Amy’s collecting class poems on a padlet here.
Reflections on the Teche 