Potato Hill Poetry

Thanks so much to the PTC for bringing third grade Potato Hill Poetry! Mr. Andrew Green was a pleasure to work with in our classroom last week. He shared many of his wonderful poems with us. As he shared, he talked about many important techniques and strategies writers can use to create powerful poetry.

*Think about how words sound together
*Use alliteration
*Share what's in your heart
*Write about things your remember
*Poems can have patterns
*Get inspired by something
*Include the 5 senses
*Write about small moments

The children were given ample time to create their own poems. Mr. Green honored their poems by reading them aloud himself. Ask your child to tell you about theirs.

Room 221 will continue our study of poetry by reading, reading and reading more poetry. Finally as we finish our unit on Open Response, we will jump into writing our own poems every day!

Thanks again to Mr. Green at Potato Hill Poetry and the PTC for bringing him to us.