Hip! Hip! Hooray for National Poetry Month. I will be celebrating with the 2nd annual “30 Days=30 Students(and then some).” Each day will have at least one poem and perhaps a few more. Students have been writing, writing, writing.
I start off with a Fibonacci poem by Zoe, a 4th grader:
Angels From Above
Beautiful
White Clouds
Better than cupid
Sparkly wings in the sky
Impressive wild colors go flying through the sky
Spotting a body, flying body to see in this life time is incredible!
Here’s the schedule for April:
Susan Taylor Brown will post Lessons Learned (Mostly About Me) in a Poem-a-Day at http://susanwrites.livejournal.com
April Halprin Wayland will be writing and posting an original poem a day during April.
http://www.aprilwayland.com/poetry/blog
Liz Garton Scanlon will give us her third year of a Haiku-a-Day every day in April!
http://liz-scanlon.livejournal.com/
Jone MacCulloch will post 30 Days-30 Students: A poem a day from students https://maclibrary.wordpress.com
A Poem A Day: A Personal Journey http://doewriter.wordpress.com
Poetry Postcard Project: Have a student written and decorated poem sent to your
home. Email her at macrush53 @yahoo. com.
Gregory K. will present 30 Poets/30 Days -a whole month of never-before-seen poems by a slew of fabulous poets writing for kids. http://gottabook.blogspot.com
Jama Rattigan will present her 2nd Annual Poetry Potluck (original poem and favorite recipe by guest bloggers) at http://jamarattigan.livejournal.com
Irene Latham will host a month-long Poetry Party: poetry quotes, trivia, craft tips, publishing resources & free books! http://irenelatham.blogspot.com
Andromeda Jazmon will be doing her fourth year in a row of haiga (original haiku + my photos) at A Wrung Sponge http://awrungsponge.blogspot.com.
Janelle at Brimful Curiosities will host a National Poetry Month Kids Poetry Challenge challenge in which kids are invited to create pictures for the poems she posts each Friday. For details: http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/2011/03/kids-poetry-challenge-national-poetry.html
Patricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect will present Poetry in the Classroom series. Each day she will highlight a topic, theme, poet, or book and talk about uses in the classroom.
Mary Lee will be writing a poem a day again this year, and posting them at A Year of Reading.
National Poetry Month Poetry Friday schedule:
a.. April 1 http://poemfarm.blogspot.com/
a.. April 8 http://www.madiganreads.com/
a.. April 15 http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/
a.. April 22 http://bookaunt.blogspot.com/
a.. April 29 http://www.tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/
Poem Farm will kick off the month for Poetry Friday. Go See what’s happening.
Happy Reading.
MsMac
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Thanks for this great list of poetry links! I got started late this year with my blog plans for April.
I look forward to reading your students’ poems.
BTW, I’ll be giving away children’s poetry books during the month of April at Wild Rose Reader again this year. Here’s a link with the Book Giveaway Schedule:
http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/2011/04/win-childrens-poetry-book-from-wild.html