National Poetry Day

National Poetry Day falls every year on the first Thursday of October and it's a great chance to enjoy poetry.This year's topic is water. Click on the picture and you will have access to 45 poems about water. Choose one, write it on construction paper and illustrate it. On Thursday 3rd, you will recite it in front of the class.

 

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.
 

Valentine Haiku

This year we're going to celebrate Valentine's Day writing Haiku poems. But first you will need to do some research and find out what a Haiku is. Click on the heart and do the mini webquest. If you click on examples you'll find some haikus.

POETRY

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky.

 

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