As I entered the herd of students gathered to go outside for recess, one of my students came next to me. We started walking together.
“I keep speaking poetry. I can’t speak normally, ” she exclaimed.
“What do you mean? You speak poetry?” I asked.
“I started saying a line using poetry and now I can’t stop. Everything I say sounds like poetry!”
I love that she can speak in “poetry”. I’m even more excited to start our poetry unit tomorrow! 🙂
One of my favorite poems to read with my students:
Safety Pin
by Valerie Worth
Closed, it sleeps
On its side
Quietly.
The silver
Image
Of some
Small fish;
Opened, it snaps
Its tail out
Like a thin
Shrimp, and looks at the sharp
Point with a
Surprised eye.
Photo by Felipe Gabaldon realeased by Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
I am in the middle of a poetry group. I’ll ask them if they ‘speak’ poetry. They’ll love the idea, I think. Thanks for the ‘safety pin’-such a good line of words.
Speaking poetry . . . Love it! And very cool the poem. Teaching kids to enjoy and create poetry is one of my favorite things. I hope you will be posting what you are doing in class. I am always interested in hearing about lessons and reading kid writing.
Yes, I will definitely post about my poetry unit. I love teaching this unit!
I know that poem. I used it in my poetry packet. Excellent to work with. I didn’t like to study poetry until I developed a packet of poetry that might interest my age group of 7th graders.
That’s exactly what I do as well. I give them a packet of mentor text poems we use throughout the unit! 🙂
I love Valerie Worth’s poems. I love that the student thinks everything she says sounds like poetry. Kids are funny!
Yes, I agree, that Valerie Worth is a great poet.