Have your class come together to write a poem! Each kid could contribute a line, they could create them in groups, or however you decide to do this. These pages will be displayed throughout the garden.
- Each class may submit a class poem. If you’d rather submit a few because your kids work in groups, that’s fine. We’d like to display your class’s poem(s) on a single 12×18″ yard sign (so please don’t submit 25 individual poems). 🙂 We will try to display whatever you submit.
- Poems should be connected to nature, gardening, weather, plants, animals, etc.
- Illustrations are optional.
- Class poems submitted by Friday, October 4th will be displayed in the garden at the Stober Fall Fest Sunday, October 13th. We will plan to keep them on display (weather permitting) for about a month.
- This will then be a spot where they can show their poetry to their families at the Fall Fest, and/or you can let your class go and see the different poetry everyone came up with!
Resources:
Here’s a lesson from Kidsgardening.org about having kids create poems from the garden.
From that lesson, consider using this Word Harvest Worksheet to help students note both their external and internal findings.
Sample Nature Poetry:
Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher
A Child’s Calendar by John Updike
Over in the Garden by Jennifer Ward (video is a sung reading)
Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems by Francisco X. Alarcon (a video more about him and his writing in two languages, creating poems, and oral tradition – click here)
Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems by Kristine O’Connell George
Color Me a Rhyme and Fine Feathered Friends by Jane Yolen
Template Worksheets for Formula-Style Poems
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