A Poem A Day - Clean the World

Keeping our Earth clean,
Makes for a better place to live,
For you and for me.

Here's one of our Haiku collaborative poems. Just in time for Earth Day.

Spring Break

It's spring break for our school this week. I need to catch up on my assignments for my library classes! I hope you all have a wonderful week and I will bring you more student poetry next week!

A Poem A Day - Fog

Folds and Folds
Of spun sugar, like a soft
Gray blanket over the land.

This is from Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli and Dan Brewer, New York: Scholastic, 2001. This is the book our class read over and over and we practiced writing our acrostics. I will post some of the work over the next few days.

A Poem a Day - Spring

Swinging high on a breezy day,
Pretending to be a kite.
Riding scooters up and down the block.
In my face blows a gentle wind and
Noisy children
Gather Easter eggs.
- Ms. B's class 2005

This poem was written by my class as we experimented with acrostics. We were learning that a sentence does NOT need to be confined to one line.

Poem a Day - April Rain Song

Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with liquid silver drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.
- Langston Hughes -

I found this poem in "A Poem for Every Day" by Susan Moger. I used it when I was teaching 2nd grade. I can't wait to dive into it and remind myself of all the wonderful memories we had!