Do you have a favorite poem? I don’t, though I feel like I should. March 21 is World Poetry Day, and April is National Poetry Month. Perhaps that’s why this assortment of poetry books caught my eye:
- A Year of Nature Poems (Wide Eyed Editions) includes timely poems for each month, including a celebration of spring daffodils for March.
- I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage (Lee & Low Books), compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins, shares authors’ and artists’ joyous childhood moments.
- The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog (Candlewick Press) has all kinds of handy advice, from meeting hedgehogs to riding bikes to catching poems.
One lucky teacher will win all three of these great books. To get in on our random drawing, submit a comment to this blog by Thursday, March 26, and let us know if you have a favorite poem (and if so, what it is). I’m hoping to find some inspiration! Congratulations to our lucky winner Carol!
Now check out this week’s literary freebies.
In The Writing Bee contest, a children’s author writes a chapter of a book, and grades 4 and 5 students write the next chapters. After several qualifying rounds, a winner is chosen. Register by March 31 to get in on the fun at thewritingbee.org.
Discover a new way for students to tell their stories with My Storybook. With this free service, kids create stories, upload images, and share their stories as published authors. See how it works at mystorybook.com.
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I do love Shel Silverstein’s wit, and as a kid I remember loving a book of poems that had a potato chip and a moon on the cover. I can’t wait to hear about your favorites!
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PS: Alma in Chicago, Melani in Redondo Beach, Wendy in Quincy—these teachers and dozens more are recent winners in the Learning magazine WIN contests. Our next round of prize drawings is coming up soon; enter here.
PPS: Just found this free downloadable Shel Silverstein poetry kit: shelsilverstein.com/learning/poetry-month. I’m downloading mine!
The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
Sarah, Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein, and all of his poems.
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
I have always like the Shel Silverstein poems.
What Do You Do With the Mad that You Feel from the Mister Rogers Neighborhood Poem Book. Love it!
I like all of Jack Prelutsky’s work and also a book from my childhood: Hailstones and Hailibut Bones.
Spreading Love through Acts Of Kindness. By: Lenora McWhorter.
Not necessarily one poem in particular, but my favorite poem type is a haiku.
I teach my second graders some verses from The Flag Goes By by Henry Holcomb Bennett. It teaches patriotism and respect for the flag.
Robert Frost – Road not taken
Not a favorite poem but I love Emily Dickinson’s poems
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
I love Pablo Neruda!
Are nursery rhymes a type of poetry, because I love them!
Love all of Jack Preluysky’s poems
My favorite (and my Kindergartener’s) is Every Day Birds by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. It’s a wonderful poem about birds stretched out across the pages of a gorgeously illustrated picture book. We are in the process of studying it one stanza a week for several months. A close read, if you will.
I have so many favorite poems! I think I will share a silly favorite from childhood:
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you, anyhow–
I’d rather see than be one!
(by Gelett Burgess)
Isn’t that simple and silly? But it for some reason, it always made me smile.
I like the nursery rhymes that I know the tunes for. Seems to be easier for them to remember them.
“Magic” by Shel Silverstein
I just love “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” by Shel Silvertein. The little ones love how gross it is and the what if.
I, Too by Langston Hughes is one of my favorites. I also love Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Dogku that was written by Andrew Clements is always one of my favorite books to read to my elementary students. Each page of the entire story is a haiku that makes up the whole story of a lost dog!
I do not have a favorite poem. I love rhyming poetry!
Frost’s, “The Road not Taken”
I’m Nobody- Emily Dickinson and some of the ones my students write when we do a poetry unit.
Psalm 23 in the Bible
A Visit from St. Nicholas
For me, Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins. I read it to the kids every year, but they prefer Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast, by Jack Prelutsky.