Poetry class is a fantastic option for children because it nurtures creativity and self expression in a fun and engaging way.  Through exploration of different poems of styles and forms, students discover their unique voice while enhancing their reading skills. Poetry encourages imagination and emotional awareness, helping kids connect to the world around them. Plus, it fosters a sense of 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 and each literary domain.  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 middle school standards.

  This course teaches writing through using poetry ( however, we do not write poetry)  tis focuses on more informative, opinion, and creative extention writing objectives.  We learn style and structure and conventions and mechanics as well as some grammar focuses. 
 
 But that is not all.  This course is designed to meet the needs of various learners including adhd, autism, dyslexia, and other neurodivergent learning styles. For all second and third grade students, of any ability, this poetry class will be the most effective course in English Language Arts.  

Students can develop socially, emotionally, and cognively 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. Students will benefit from colored pens. 

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.