Poetry Friday for ES

Hello, Teachers!

On this page you'll find links to all my posts about teaching poetry in elementary school classrooms from PreK-2.  They'lll give you an overview of the kinds of activities we did and examples of children's work from my 15+ years of blogging (in roughly grade-level order, not chronological order).

Very few of these posts directly address students, but you can find the new WHISPERshout Poetry Magazine by clicking this link.  This online magazine is publishing poetry and accompanying artwork by kids ages 4-12, and each weekly issue showcases 4-5 poems with a little commentary on the poets' techniques.

Please browse now and check back soon, when I will have links to some downloadable materials that you might find useful.  Thanks for visiting!

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PreK and K

Poetry Friday Arrives in PreK

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2020/12/poetry-friday-arrives-in-prek.html

Writing Collaborative Poems with PreK
https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2021/04/psa-1-my-april-npm-project-inspired-by.html

How-To: Garden Poems with PreK

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2022/04/npm-29-and-now-for-something-not-at-all.html

An Action Poem for Early Childhood Classrooms

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2020/10/hop-to-it-hoopla-hooray.html

Kindergarten Poetry Friday Anthology: The Poems We Read...

"Fish" link and "Sing a Rainbow"

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/07/overheard-in-kindergarten-poetry.html

"Clouds" Christina Rossetti

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/07/oik-tuesday-look-up-for-metaphor.html

FREDERICK Leo Lionni

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/07/oik-tuesday-sky-mice.html

"Stir a Bowl of Gingerbread"

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/07/oik-tuesday-winter-in-july.html

"Chicken Soup with Rice" Maurice Sendak

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/08/oik-tuesday-little-hot-soup-for-you.html

...and Wrote

"What Do Poets Do?" Unit of Study + Kindergarten Poems

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2015/05/what-do-kindergarten-poets-do.html

More "What Do Poets Do?" 

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2015/04/wonder.html

1st Grade Poetry Friday Anthology: The Poems We Read...

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2010/04/first-grade-update.html

2nd Grade Poetry Friday Anthology: The Poems We Read...

"balloon" Colleen Thibaudeau

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2015/09/on-reading-and-quite-few-other-things.html

...and Wrote

2nd Grade Coral Reef Poems

https://pennyklostermann.com/2017/02/03/poetry-friday-roundup-is-here-today/

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2017/01/under-sea.html

2nd Grade Habitat Poems

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2018/01/writing-from-research-2nd-grade-poems.html

National Poetry Month Project WITH 2nd Graders--almost daily posts, April 2018

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2018/04/2-by-2-in-2nd-grade-npm-2018.html

A Little Slice of Earth--Nature Poems by 2nd Graders

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-little-slice-of-earth-free-verse_10.html

National Poetry Month Project WITH 2nd Graders--almost daily posts, April 2018

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2018/04/2-by-2-in-2nd-grade-npm-2018.html

On Voice and Bilingualism

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2017/03/on-voice-moon-tags-world.html

Visiting Poet Workshop - 2nd Grade Poems

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-print-for-first-time.html

Reflections on a Year of 2nd Grade

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2018/06/dodging-snowflakes-reflections-on-year.html

3rd-Grade Haiku and Comments on the Rubric by Which It Was Scored

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/06/cooling-off-and-catching-up.html

All Grades: 

RE (Sunday School) Nature Poems

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2013/03/overheard-in-sunday-school.html

Science Series: Poems for Synergizing with Your Science Curriculum (5 posts, Nov/Dec 2014)

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2014/10/science-series-i.html

For YOU!

Poetry is Art Class with Words: Poetry Foundation's Summer Teacher Institute

https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2018/07/poetry-friday-roundup-pofo-summer.html