[LIT] poetry activities

[Bill IVEY]

Hi!

So in the U.S., it's National Poetry Month! What's going on in and around
your classrooms?

My school is having a "golden ticket" search - we hide poems around the
school,and whoever finds them has to share them with the school and wins a
Wonka bar.

I also had fun with my kids yesterday doing a surrealistic poem - after
working on the definition, I asked them to do automatic writing onto index
cards (one word or phrase per index cards) for approximately two or three
minutes in response to an image I showed them. I then collected the cards
in a bag, mixed them up, pulled them out and read them in that random
order. The kids thought it was really cool and want to do it again. We
decided next time, there wouldn't be a common stimulus - we want to see if
there will still be logic of a kind (which we did get in yesterday's poem).

Next?!

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School