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Showing posts with label Poetry Packet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry Packet. Show all posts
Saturday, October 15, 2011
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Hey y'all - I just realized my poem of the week for this week is about even and odd numbers - and I haven't talked about this with my kids at ALL! I figured I should whip something up pretty quick to teach this, so here it is:
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Poetry Packet, Part Deux
So where do I find my poems?
I LOVE to look on ProTeacher, or sometimes I just google if there is a particular theme I'm trying to match up with. I also found a couple of books on Scholastic's Teacher Express. Sometimes they do sales like $1 eBooks, or most recently, they gave $10 free. I got 10 eBooks for $0!
I like to use poems that teach something if it's not a holiday or theme week. Like this week, we are doing a poem with color words. Next week our poem is called "Ways to Remember" (I can't remember where I got this from, let me know if it's you!). It talks about how to remember which is the left and which is the right but it rhymes and it isadorable effective!
I LOVE to look on ProTeacher, or sometimes I just google if there is a particular theme I'm trying to match up with. I also found a couple of books on Scholastic's Teacher Express. Sometimes they do sales like $1 eBooks, or most recently, they gave $10 free. I got 10 eBooks for $0!
I like to use poems that teach something if it's not a holiday or theme week. Like this week, we are doing a poem with color words. Next week our poem is called "Ways to Remember" (I can't remember where I got this from, let me know if it's you!). It talks about how to remember which is the left and which is the right but it rhymes and it is
Poetry Packet
I have always done Poetry Packet with my kiddos. My Cooperating Teacher during student teaching did poetry packet, and I loved how much she was able to teach through a poem of the week. I know many other teachers do something similar, but since a coworker asked about it today, I thought I would share how I do poetry packet!
We have a new poem each week, and we read it at the end calendar time / beginning of literacy as a good transition. I project the poem onto the whiteboard with the LCD projector and point to the words as I/we/they read it. That way I can model their "must-do" before we go into centers.
Each poem has a short activity to go with it - for example, our color words poem has a box at the bottom for students to write their favorite color and draw a picture of something that is that color.
On Mondays, students' "must-do" is to complete the activity with the poem. Or if there's no activity, draw a picture to accompany the poem.
On Tuesdays, students highlight sight words with a yellow crayon.
On Wednesdays, students trace vowels with a red crayon.
On Thursdays, students trace punctuation with a green crayon.
On Fridays, students read the poem silently three times.
Since we seem to have less time in our schedule this year to spend on Poetry Packet, I have included the poems in students' take-home binders (BEACH Books). This way students carry their poems home and back everyday, and reading the poem of the week is part of their nightly homework. It gets parents involved too! As parents see what their children are working on each day in the P.P. those conversations help to reinforce all that we are learning at school - and I always love that!
We have a new poem each week, and we read it at the end calendar time / beginning of literacy as a good transition. I project the poem onto the whiteboard with the LCD projector and point to the words as I/we/they read it. That way I can model their "must-do" before we go into centers.
Each poem has a short activity to go with it - for example, our color words poem has a box at the bottom for students to write their favorite color and draw a picture of something that is that color.
On Mondays, students' "must-do" is to complete the activity with the poem. Or if there's no activity, draw a picture to accompany the poem.
On Tuesdays, students highlight sight words with a yellow crayon.
On Wednesdays, students trace vowels with a red crayon.
On Thursdays, students trace punctuation with a green crayon.
On Fridays, students read the poem silently three times.
Since we seem to have less time in our schedule this year to spend on Poetry Packet, I have included the poems in students' take-home binders (BEACH Books). This way students carry their poems home and back everyday, and reading the poem of the week is part of their nightly homework. It gets parents involved too! As parents see what their children are working on each day in the P.P. those conversations help to reinforce all that we are learning at school - and I always love that!
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