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Mrs. Barron's 3rd Grade Class At Wildwood Elementary School
In addition to "free verse" I introduced the students to the idea of "list" poems and "comparison" poems. I was so impressed with everything they did. We made a book of their poems and submitted them, one each, to a poetry contest.
The List Poems were an extension of a lesson on nouns and verbs. The children created flowers where the center was a noun and the outer petals were verbs associated with that noun, such as dog and barks, runs, drools, etc. They then took their flowers and turned them into list poems by using the "ing' form of their verbs.
Ms. Boone's 5th grade girls also wrote many poems. I gave them a lesson on the two forms of Haiku and Diamante.
Kenzie, 5th grade, MSAE, wrote a haiku and a diamante about the same stick she found on our Prairie Nature Walk,