“Love that Poetry” gave me a lot of new ideas I would like to try with students. I can only imagine some of the things they would come up with! “Love that Dog” was also a real pleasure to read. I really felt like I got to know this little boy through the poems he was writing. I didn’t really think I would have connected with his story in poetry form. The evolution of his thinking gave me a good idea how a student in the early grades would approach writing poetry.
I selected a few poems from “all the small poems and fourteen more”. These were hard for me to understand and feel as connected to as “Love that Dog”. However, I think students would really have a fun time writing about the objects they discover. There are also many ways to integrate the poetry with other content areas by allowing to explore things they are learning more deeply through writing about them.
As a photographer, I also really enjoyed “Brown Angels”. Having a connection to the children the author was writing about warmed my heart and made me really appreciate the book. I think that children would also enjoy writing poems to go along with images they collect as well. Exploring family and the different types of family would tie social studies into this in the appropriate grade level.
The selections we read this week shined a light on poetry that doesnt make it seem so much like something to dread, but something to enjoy.
