Poetry Friday posts are with Michelle at Today’s Little Ditty.
One of my favorite days of the school year is Dot Day. My students love it, too. Today we will be making creative dots in class. I’ll post them next week.
In preparation for our Friday celebration, I shared Laura Purdie Salas’s Dot poem.
Laura Purdie Salas
As a class, we brainstormed a list of things that were dots. I asked my students to write a rhyming couplet with one or two of the ideas we listed.
Writing a rhyming couplet seems easy, at first. I quickly discovered that rhyming doesn’t go together with making sense in kids’ writing. We had lots of a lots rhyming with dots. We even had cots and bots. We also had internal rhyme rather than end rhyme, slant rhyme, and some just plain nonsense.
One student said, “This is hard.”
I responded, “Yes, but isn’t it fun when it works?”
We persevered and created a poem everyone was happy with. I am sharing two poems from each of my ELA groups.
A Pixel on the Page
A pixel on the page is just the start
for what may become a famous work of art.Everything is made up of matter,
even the mad hatter.Dots are everywhere
as well as over there.A dot is the sun. A dot is the moon
disappearing around noon.The earth is a dot
in not just one spot.Want to make a rhyme,
running out of time?
Who you gonna call?
The majestic, dotty, narwhal.One dot, two dots,
three dots, four,
five dots, six dots,
seven dots,
let’s add some more.A dot is a dot
and there are quite a lot.All you need is a spot
to make a dot.I’m a dot, you’re a dot, everything’s a dot.
A dot can be super hot
spilled on the floor
dots,
dots,
dots
galore.
Dot to Dot
Put an egg in a pot to boil
water bubbles, bump and coil.
My fingerprint marks a dot
leaving my dirt in a swirling spot.
A period on the end of a line
On a piece of paper ready to sign.
Potatoes, tomatoes, grapes on the vine
A salad combined for us to dine.
A seed that will grow into a tree
pollinated by a tiny little bee.
A dot…
a dot is a lens on the tip of your eye
looking for clouds high in the sky.
A dot is spot we can see
like that chocolate chip in my cookie.
Reflections on the Teche 