Little Little Poems From Little Little People

I don't recall getting a lot of pleasure out of studying poetry as a student.  Even as an adult I don't feel very competent with poetry, but oddly enough it's become my favorite genre to teach my young writers.  You and your writers are missing out if you haven't tried it.  (Click here to read my poetry posts.)  


It's hard to bring such a great unit to an end, but to help us celebrate we created a classroom poetry anthology.  I sorted through their writing folders and took out a few of their best poems.  Then each poet chose one from that selection that they wanted to publish.  As a class, we came up with a name and dedication page.  I copied it all 25 times over, so each child would have their own copy of the anthology.  I took a few pictures of some poems I thought you might enjoy reading. 

I'm really hoping that when these writers are studying or writing poetry during the next 11 years they'll appreciate and enjoy it a whole lot more than I ever did.  Job well done if that's the case.