Mrs. Malphy's Taste of Books: April 2012

April is National Poetry Month and in honor of that, I thought that I'd have some of my elementary classes create Book Spine Poems. I had never done this activity before, so I figured I'd better create some book spine poems of my own to show the students when they came in. Here are just a couple of those that I created.

A Garden Poem

A Camping Poem

After introducing my poems to the students, I turned them loose in the library. I told them that they could use any books in the library from Easy Books to Fiction Books to all kinds of Non-fiction. I had the students pair up as I thought this would make it a little easier for them. It was very interesting to see the topics that they wanted to create their poems about. There were poems about the Titanic, poems about lots of animals and poems about food. The kids did a great job creating some real imaginative poems. Take a look at their work!