Poetry Friday

Poetry Friday: THINGS WE FEEL Activity

 
Bridget at wee words for wee ones is our host for this week’s Poetry Friday. Head there for the roundup.
 
 

THINGS WE FEEL Poetry Activity

 
I love sharing and writing poetry with students. Recently, I used THINGS WE FEEL with kindergarten students. It’s the perfect book for preK-1st grades with ekphrastic poetry focused on emotions! I used emojis for students to select which poems we’d read. They get to make connections to their own emotions. It would also make a fun activity for a daily poetry break. There are enough emojis and poems to sustain poetry breaks for more than a month!
 
 
 
 

Haiku of the Week

 
I’m still reflecting back to summer walks in the woods with this haiku. Don’t worry, my fall haiku are on their way soon.
 

 

 

in summer rains—

yellowing leaf suspended

by a spider’s silk

Photo & Haiku © 2022 Marcie Flinchum Atkins 

 

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What I’m Reading

 
Aimee is one of my favorite poems. I read this book during “The Sealey Challenge” in August. I knew I wanted to revisit it and slow down, so I’ve been reading it for my three-poems-a-day routine. I also took a poetry class via Inked Voices about “Turns and Ends” in poetry. The first part of the class focused on turns in poems—thinking about how something changes in a poem or goes somewhere new. This book has lots of great examples of turns.

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