Poetry+Party+2012

=1st Annual Poetry Party 2012=

From April 23-27, the Red Smith Library will be celebrating National Poetry Month by spotlighting some fun poetry centers. Elementary students checked out during their regularly scheduled checkout and then had some time to explore the poetry centers. Middle school students created Book Spine Poems on Thursday, which was also Poem in Your Pocket Day. Everyone had a lot of fun and we look forward to making it even bigger and better next year!

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Here is a video specifically of all the spine poems, the Langauge Arts classes of Mrs. Molaski, Mrs. Lofdahl, and Mr. Jennings created. There are some very creative kids that go to Red Smith!

Poem in your Pocket Day, April 26th-
====Everyone at Red Smith was encouraged to bring a poem in their pocket to school. Students and staff were welcome to come to the LMC to record their poem on a Voicethread. Next year's Voicethread will be even better since all students will have their own Voicethread accounts.====

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Skyping with students from Van Meter Middle School
One lucky 2nd grade class was fortunate to be able to Skype with 6th and 7th grade students from Van Meter Middle School in Van Meter, Iowa. Mrs. Shannon Miller, the wonderful librarian at their school was a great resource as the students used Skype for the first time as a class. Thanks Ms. Miller and students! Here is a picture of us while we were skyping in the library, the kids had so much fun and can't wait to try it again.



Poetry Stations
Here are the centers that I used with the students:

















Special shout out to [] for the great poem center ideas!



My working google doc with a list of possible centers and the books that went with them. I didn't end up using a few of the technology ones, or the origami center because they were too distracting or time consuming for the amount of time that classes had available to explore the centers.

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