At Co-op this year I am teaching a class called, How to Write Poetry! This is such a fun, creative class! I really enjoy teaching it!

Here are a few poems from Luke!

Couplets:

I heard a pig
Riding a rig.

Triplets:

I saw a big snake
It's name was Flake Jake
It ate a fake cake

Quatrains *AABB, ABAB, ABBA*

There was a hippo was was big
He sat on a very big twig.
He played with a blue ball
He wished to be so tall.

Today I went to the big zoo
I saw a red, blue crab that was rad.
I found a cool tan kangaroo
And then I saw my super, cool dad.

I left my socks on some rocks.
They're orange and green
They're super clean
I found them thanks to a fox.

Haikus:

I'm sitting outside
On a cold, wet, gloomy day
I hear birds twirping.

Colorful fall leaves
Orange, purple, green, red, brown
Falling, falling down

Chants using a Rhetorical Question:

Homework for this week

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We all know that boys and girls are different. It's just the way God made us! I told my class that they would be working on writing a chant using a rhetorical question about nature - examples I gave was, Can I touch a star? Can I count the sand? Can I slide down a sunbeam? Luke asked if he could write - for his rhetorical question -  "Can I eat a star?" I said, sure and I thought, Can I eat a star??? (wink!)

This class is a wonderful way to get boys, not just our Luke :) to learn poetry in a FUN way! At first I heard, "I don't want to take this class." Why? "Poetry is mushy love stuff for girls."  What??? No it's not!  Poetry is not just for girls and  it's not all about mushy love stuff. Poetry is a way to express yourself in writing - it can be about animals, hunting, fishing, baseball, climbing trees and.... eating stars!!!

Blessings,
EMichelle