Today all of the first grade classes came together to celebrate our published class poetry books. Over the last month, all of our writers have worked hard on writing and refining these poems. During this poetry unit, our writers learned that poets get inspirations from other poets. We read aloud many poems together and studied the tools and cool things poets use to make their poems interesting and fun to read. To name but a few, we studied poems by Shel Silverstein, Zoe Ryder White, Valerie Worth, Eloise Greenfield. Our poets then tried out some of these poetic tools such as similes, comparison, personification, onomatopoeia, line breaks and rhyme in their own poems. Lastly, our poets carefully selected two poems they liked best and have them published in our class poetry book. Today, we all came together to celebrate this great success! Aside from sharing their poems, they also led a great discussion about how and where they got their writing inspirations. It was a fantastic experience for all three classes to come together and celebrate each others' work and know each other better as readers and writers. Tonight your child will bring home their own personal copy of the class poetry book. I hope you enjoy the poems as much as I do.
Congratulations, First Grade Poets!
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