We just can't stop the feeling!

For the past few months the second graders have been working on our poetry unit

in writing.  During this time we have driven down the roads of seeing with

a poet’s eyes, experimenting with language and sound to create meaning and

then looked at structure and feelings of poems! Let’s take a look at some

of the fun we had along the way!

Students learned that poems have a pattern with repetition through sounds, words

or lines. Here we did a mini lesson using a Powerpoint of some of

Shel Silverstein’s poems. Students worked through finding rhyming words!

They discovered that poems don’t just have to have rhyming words

at the end of each lines.

After the mini lessons, students worked with a partner to

read two different poems. They used the Sage & Scribe structure to

highlight the rhyming words in the poems.

Another fun lesson was when students felt the beat! We

learned through the use of music how different poems can make us

have different emotions. We started off by writing down some of the different

words that describe our feelings. We then created a class anchor chart and

discussed some of the different feelings we can feel.

Next, I started off by playing Justin Timberlake’s song,Can’t Stop the Feeling.

It was awesome to see how some students could not hold back

and started to dance and even stand up to get down to the music. By the

end we had a bunch of happy, energized students. We discussed how our

mood changed and what they experienced.

I sent them back to their seats to so they could draw or write down how the song

makes them feel and why. I had selected a range of different songs that I felt

conveyed a range of emotions. After I played the song, students  discussed either

with their shoulder or face partner what mood they were in after listening to each

song and why. We then discussed this as a class!

                      

I look forward to seeing how they use their learning to write their
own poems!