by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, General Education Topics
This Thursday, April 26th, is Poem in Your Pocket Day. This is such a fun way to celebrate poetry during National Poetry Month. For this day, you find a poem or write a poem and keep it handy (in your pocket) so that you can read it to anyone and everyone you come in...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration
Studying this poem and then creating a sort of copy-cat poem from it is a great activity for your students (and YOU) to do. This poem, Where I’m From written by George Ella Lyon, is a touching one that gives insight to the person who wrote it through the senses...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration
Teachers love poetry too! We should be reading and creating it as much as we want our students to. Last night was a fun 4th grade chat ( #4thchat) on Twitter with other 4th grade teachers. The topic was poetry and one teacher, Nancy Carroll @ncarroll24 asked: Does...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration
Poetry is great! ‘Come on, don’t you agree? Poetry can be sweet and rhyme-y or in-your-face and raw. It contains so much passion, so many illusions. It can tell a story, describe an emotion, explain a situation or throw down the truth. But how much...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, General Education Topics, General Interest
Just in time for April (Poetry Month) and as a send out to March (Literacy Month), I’ve finally epublished my latest eresource – The Poetry Project as the first in a series I will continue to add to in the months ahead. Independent Project Series - Poetry...
