I don’t know about you, but we’re back to school {well, part time any way}. This year, I have a new project up my sleeve that I’m excited to share with you. This is the first of many FREE Poetry Packs to come. My hope is to create a Poetry Pack a month, based on common themes such as back to school, apples, pumpkins, etc. Geared towards K-2nd grade, these Poetry Packs feature my 3rd grader’s clip art, my original poetry, and activities to go with them.
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Our Poetry Packs Include These 8 Activities:
- a 1-page poem
- Poetry Notebook copies
- Pocket Chart Poetry Strips for rebuilding the poem
- Read and Illustrate the Poem
- Cut and Glue Poetry Activity
- Rhyming Words Activity
- Poetry Books- kids can illustrate and/or trace the words from the poem
- and Poetry Activity Cards {see below}
Back to School Poetry Pack
Today, I’m sharing our FREE Back to School Poetry Pack. We worked on a few activities from it just this past week, but not all of them.
On day 1, I displayed the poem on our easel. I read it out loud a few times to them, then they “read” it with me. I used our finger pointer to help NJoy {Kindergarten} and MBug {4 years old} follow along. The activities in the pack weren’t really created for kids in MBug’s literacy development, but she wanted to do it all with us, so she did. ALuv {3rd grade} also did the activities with us as a fun back to school activity.
Then, I gave each of them an assignment. MBug had to circle all the capital H’s, NJoy underlined the rhyming words {a challenge for him}, and I gave ALuv the assignment of finding all the commas and the only word that was a contraction in the poem. Each had a different color of dry erase marker.
We then focused on the rhyming words for a minute. They helped me brainstorm other words that rhymed with the featured rhyming words in the poem {glue/you and year/here}. I have included some rhyming word cards in the pack, but you’ll want to print off the blank ones, too. We used quite a few blank ones as my kids all thought of other rhyming words I had not included! We sorted them on our pocket chart under glue or year.
On our second day, we read the poem several times, each child taking a turn to point at the words while everybody read along. Then, I gave each of them a poetry strip and we rebuilt the poem together in our pocket chart. We reviewed the rhyming words again.
I displayed the rhyming word cards. I gave each of the kids a rhyming words page and they were to illustrate and write a few words that rhymed with glue and year on the T chart {I folded NJoy’s paper in half long ways to keep him focused on one side at a time.} The kids shared these with each other.
Then we did something fun. We substituted out some of our rhyming words for the original rhymes in the poem, creating a few giggles. Poetry CAN be fun!
Click HERE to download this FREE 26-page Back to School Poetry Pack!
~Becky
This is truly FABULOUS!!! I would love to start doing these with my preschooler if I can just get myself together. Maybe when the garden is done…? I had thought about creating and sharing something like this for morning message… but not until next year at least. Awesome, awesome!
Thank you, Anna! Your comment means THE WORLD to me!! 🙂
Thank you for this! Will be using in my K-3 special ed classroom next week!
Yay! I’m so glad you can use it!! 🙂
Thank you very much!!!! Lovely poem!
Thanks!
I checked out your poetry packs. Fantastic!