Educating Our Eagles - Volume 6

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
Authors’ Tea Poetry Celebration
The South Egremont School has been reading poetry all year! We have been
particularly inspired by two books, Sing a Song of Seasons - A Nature Poem For
Each Day of the Year, and Hailstones and Halibut Bones - Adventures in Poetry
and Color. Each child in our class created an original poem based upon a color
of their choice with six stanzas and six pieces of art work. These poems were put into
accordion books and will be shared with families on Friday the 29th! The children also
watched Amanda Gorman reading her poem, The Hill We Climb, during the presidential
inauguration for inspiration about how to read with beautiful expression and confidence!
We are very proud of these amazing kindergarten poets and illustrators!
As a result of instruction, students will be able to:
• write and illustrate a poem.
• read work out loud to an audience.
• understand what poetry is.
Observations:
This has been a powerful and engaging learning experience. Children are deeply invested
in listening to classmates’ work and in sharing their own words and thoughts. The long
process of thinking, making, and creating over time has been wonderful!
MA Frameworks
Forming, organizing and expressing thoughts in complete sentences.
Describe relationship between illustrations and the story (poem) in which they appear
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
Recognize common types of text
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