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.
24 Comments
Rose Cappelli
Your enthusiasm knows no bounds, Marcie. Great activity for talking with kids about emotions, and thanks for summer’s last blast.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
It was such a fun activity to use with kids. Lots of opportunities for participation.
Irene Latham
I like the popsicle stick emojis very much. 🙂 And yay for that yellow leaf offering continued inspiration! Thanks for mentioning your Turns and Ends class, too. I love the element of surprise in poems, and the turn and end are likely places for that to happen!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Yes, the turns and ends class was so full of good stuff. I have to watch the last lesson, but I’m so amazed by what I’ve learned.
Bridget Magee
Your post has all the ‘feels’, Marcie! Emoji’s are the perfect entry point for wee ones to connect poetry to their own emotions. Brava!
And your haiku/photo – the moment may have happened in summer, but it giving voice to what’s happening outside my window at this moment in fall.
Thanks for sharing your reading as well… 🙂
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you so much, Bridget! And thank you for hosting this week!
janice scully
Your haiku, though of summer, was a glimpse into fall with that gorgeous leaf. I appreciate ideas from your post as to books to look for. Thanks you!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Janice!
Linda Baie
Your emoji idea is so great, Marcie, I’m sure the kids related to it wonderfully. I love remembering summer, no problem there! Beautiful picture and capture via words, too.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Yes, as much as I miss summer, I don’t mind the fall changes. It always amazes me.
Linda
Great activity, Marci! So motivating and hands-on! I stop by every week to read your haiku. They are always beautiful. I want to learn more about Inked Voices classes, especially the one you mentioned here.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
I have learned so much at Inked Voices. I pay a yearly membership fee. But there are free and low-cost webinars offered all year. The Turns and Ends was a very low cost and it was FULL of so much good information.
Linda Mitchell
Wonderful haiku. You’ve got quite a collection! And yes to this activity for kids!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Linda! I have dozens of haiku and photos in little booklets. Maybe one day they will be something more. We’ll see…
PATRICIA J FRANZ
Cannot wait to share your emoji-emotions resources with my sister’s kinders! Thanks, Marcie!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Let me know how it goes. It was such a fun activity to do with them. I would be perfect to do one per day as well.
Heidi Mordhorst
Hi, Marcie–what a great set of materials/activities for getting at the nuances of feelings in the book, in a concrete way! Aimee is also one of my favorites, and I saw her read Thursday evening on the Dodge Festival stream–she’s kind of a loon in person! I’ll check out this older volume next.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
I LOVE that you saw her! I did a free poetry workshop with her over Zoom last year and it was amazing!
Marilyn Garcia
Oh my gosh, I bet the kids had a ton of fun using emojis and correlating them to the poems in “Things We Feel”. Such a great idea! I love your photo and haiku – funny that we both had spider webs on our minds this week. 🙂
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
The emojis were really fun! I hope others can use them as well.
Mary Lee
What a great activity — so generous of you to share! And that leaf, suspended in silk! It’s like time standing still, between summer and fall…but only for as long as the silk holds!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
So true!
Laura Purdie Salas
What a fun idea for educators, Marcie! And your photo and haiku are magical. They make me feel suspended in time.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you so much!