I like sharing poetry with elementary age students when I visit their classrooms. Sometimes I just share a poem or two. Other times, I share whole collections about a specific topic
February is Library Lovers Month. To me, libraries equal books and books equal words. Drawing inspiration from "Word Collection" in Read! Read! Read! by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, I also shared 13 Words by Lemony Snicket, A Curious Menagerie by Carin Berger, and An Ambush of Tigers by Betsy R. Rosenthal.
Frogs are such a fun topic. I shared poetry, picture books, and nonfiction. We also made origami jumping frogs out of paper.
- "Polliwogs" and "The Great Frog Race" from the The Great Frog Race and Other Poems by Kristine O'Connell George
- "Pond" from Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O'Connell George
- I Don’t Want to be a Frog by Dev Petty
- I’m a Frog! By Mo Willems
- Ah Ha! By Jeff Mack
- Fabulous Frogs by Martin Jenkins
Kids love to answer the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" There are two great poetry collections about jobs: The Underwear Salesman and Other Jobs for Better or Verse by J. Patrick Lewis and Steady Hands: Poems about Work by Tracie Vaughn Zimmerman. I planned to share the librarian poem from each collection and then a selection based on the answers I received to my question.
Resources
- Activity guide for A Curious Menagerie on the publisher's website
- Teacher's guide for The Great Frog Race on the author's website
- Teacher's guide for Fold Me a Poem on the author's website
- Activities for I Don't Want to Be a Frog on the publisher's website
- Activity for Steady Hands from the publisher via TeachingBooks
Links to My Reviews
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