During April we celebrated National Poetry Month--&
poetry about libraries during National Library Week. Check out some of our
local poets!
Many wrote acrostic poems—You use the letters in your name or
something you like to do, or the letters in ‘library’—or any word:
Liberty
Ice cream
Book
Read
Active
Reread
Yay!
Lucky
In Cedar Lake
Because the
library is
Amazing. You can
Read The
Hunger Games
Yet it is never
open too late
Super awesome
Work hard
In the water
Makes me feel
amazing
Joyful
Always reading
Can do algebra
Excited
You can always
find me doing something creative.
Jam and toast
Everyone’s friend
Rabbids is my
favorite game!
Extra joyful
Makes up jokes
Yoyo doer
Riddle Poetry—we solved different riddle poems all month
long. They were from the book, Guess Again! Riddle Poems by Lillian
Morrison. Here is one for National Library Week:
“Easy to open, no need to unlock it.
Sometimes it’s small enough to carry in your pocket.
But when it is open it can carry you
Through fascinating spaces like a far-flying rocket.!
It is a _____ _____
_____ _____ (See the answer at the end of this post!)
24 Hour Poem—for this poem you write down what you did each hour
during a 24 hour period. Here is one composition:
I sleep all day.
I sleep all night
I sleep at sunrise
I sleep on a rainy day.
I sleep in Mexico
I sleep everywhere.
I waaaaaake up.
I am hurrying up to go to school!
I work at MacDonald’s and
I work at an office.
I love to work.
I work so hard
I eat breakfast.
I work,
Work,
Work,
Work,
Work.
I wait for the bus
I relax.
While I relax I read.
I talk a lot and laugh too.
Now I fall asleep.
I like to sleep.
Some made poems from letters and words cut from old
magazines:
Try some of these fun types of poetry. Talk about them with your older child and provide materials. Have fun working together, too!
You and your preschooler or toddler can work together. For example you might write an acrostic poem featuring
the letters in your child’s name. Get out some old magazines and use pictures
and letters to create unique poetry. Activities like these—that involve writing
(& cutting, gluing and coloring), rhyming, singing, and talking—all teach
your child essential early literacy skills. So have fun together—you are
helping your child get ready to learn to read!!
