Parents, Are you looking to build confidence in your young child, enhance their reading and analytical skills, boost their emotional development?  This class offers it all.  

  Poetry class is a fantastic option for young children because it nurtures creativity and self expression in a fun and engaging way.  Through exploration of different poems of styles and forms, children discover their unique voice while enhancing their reading skills. Poetry encourages imagination and emotional awareness, helping kids connect to their feelings and the world around them. Plus, it fosters a sense of confidence and community as students share and celebrate each other's work, making learning both enjoyable and collaborative.

WHY THIS CLASS:
  This course builds on comprehension and developing an understanding of poetry but more importantly it builds on each literary domain to include comprehension, fluency, grammar, spelling, vocabulary and more.  Poetry can also enhance Reading and English Language Arts skills in many areas. While this course is aligned with state specific and federal standards, it also helps students to gain ground quickly in 2nd through 5th Grade Objectives.
 
 But that is not all.  This course is designed to meet the needs of various learners.  ALL STUDENTS ARE WELCOME.  This course offers chunked learning, meaning we give a chunk of information, then review it.  we give another chunk of information and then review it.  the pace is slow enough for learners to retain information but fast enough for them to stay engaged.  Students learn to process in all levels of thinking from reading and reviewing to applying knowledge of those skills.  Students with neauro-divergent needs such as adhd, autism, dyslexia, and other neuro-divergent learning styles are welcome.
   For all students, of any ability, THIS POETRY CLASS WILL BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE CLASS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS.

Students can develop socially, emotionally, and cognitively in this course making it ideal place to be.  This course will enhance their overall learning experiences.  Poetry can enhance reading and ELA (English Language Arts) skills in several key areas to include:

🍏Vocabulary Development 
🍎Reading Comprehension 
🍏Phonemic Awareness
🍎Critical Thinking 
🍏Writing Skills 
🍎Cultural Awareness 

Poetry can address several important challenges for young children to include:
🍏Emotional Expression: 
🍎Identity and Belonging
🍏Understanding Diversity
🍎Creativity and imagination 
🍏Language and Literacy Skills


STRUCTURE OF THE DAY: 
  This class is setup to be easy fun and exciting.  In each class we will 
⭐️Read Aloud
⭐️A Poem of the Week
⭐️ Review Theme/ Emotion/ Imagery
⭐️ Discuss Thematic Collections
⭐️ Make Visual Art Connections
⭐️ Practice Worksheets
⭐️ Draw/ Write in Poetry Journals
⭐️ and At Times Have Poetry Performance Explorations, learning how poetry connects other forms of art, music, visual art, movement, encouraging students to find their own connections.



WHAT:
IN THIS COURSE STUDENTS WILL LEARN:
  In this course students will learn the poem of the day, themes, emotions, and imagery, about famous poets, and art expression.  

POEMS OF THE WEEK:
Fog
Margaret 
Little girl be careful what you say
Doors
Between two hills
More

TOPICS/ THEMES/ EMOTIONS/ IMAGERY:
Nature
Love
Identity
Joy
Sadness, fear, hope
Visual, tactile, symbolism
More

FAMOUS POETS:
Robert Frost
Emily Dickenson 
Edgar Allen Poe
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Carl Sandburg

ART EXPRESSION:
Illustrations
Coloring
Calligraphy 
Shading
Graphic art
Shape poetry

STUDENTS WILL NEED:
  Students will need a pencil and a notebook or sketchbook.  Students will need crayons or markers or colored pencils.  Some students might benefit from having a scarf or long tailed fabric ( this is not a must)

HOW I TEACH:
  Students will interact with read aloud poems and peers.  They will be given the opportunity to discuss topics that align with the specific class.  Students might at time watch presentations and slides.  Students will be guided in topic discussions to create a visual art piece of the poem read in the course.  In some classes we extend the poetry to performance exploration.  In this course I encourage students to connect to poems by asking questions that align with course objectives but want to ensure a love of poetry and aim to make this course fun and interactive.

IM AVAILABLE:
  I'm available for questions anytime and if you need, you may also message me.