Happy May Day, everyone! Elizabeth Steinglass is hosting this week’s gathering on her blog. Won’t you join us there? If you are new to Poetry Friday and are ever wondering where to find the weekly host of Poetry Friday, you’ll find a list of hosts and their blog links here.
I absolutely loved National Poetry Month and my #ThoreaulyInspired project, but I’m pooped! Writing a poem draft a day is a labor of love, indeed. Here’s a Padlet of the poems that I either created from scratch or revisited and revised from the past. I do feel more connected to not only Thoreau but the changing world around me.
I also wanted to share some sweet haiku that several of my Kindergarteners chose to write on National Haiku Day last month. I shared a line with them during a ZOOM session and here’s what they added. Not bad for their first haiku!
So now it’s May, National Notebooking Month, and I’m looking forward to lots of scribbling about whatever comes my way.
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Thanks to Elizabeth for hosting this week’s celebration! Happy Friday, all, and be safe and well.
Wondering and Wandering 
I think those are some pretty awesome KDG haiku!! Kudos to your kids!
I now will have some time to try to catch up. I am going to choose two blogs and go through them during the rest of the year so I can interact even if I missed it during April. Too much poetic gold to miss out on!! So you may see more of me. I had no idea it was notebook month. Yay !!
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The catch up is a focus for May for me. There was so much great stuff happening in April, but with writing, posting, AND teaching it was tough to keep up.
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WOW! Your kindergarteners rocked the cardinal haikus! And National Notebooking Month? I’m IN!
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Not bad for their first attempt. I’m going to give them more poetry challenges during our final 8 weeks online. They are up for it, and I truly believe in fighting the “poetry is for April” mindset. Notebook on!
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Hooray! You’ve finished. I finished too…and just printed out my efforts for my first ever attempt at making May revision month. I’ve never enjoyed revision or felt the love of it as has been described by others. But, I’m going to give it a go. I loved your idea and how your poems have been short, sweet and accessible for our younger poets. Red Cardinal Feathers is wonderful!
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Thanks, Linda. And May is giving me the chance to catch up on everyone’s projects. Writing, posting, and teaching was some serious juggling!
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I love your K’ers cardinal haiku! I’ve also done haiku with students this way–offering them a first line. It seems to work quite well. Congratulations on your NPM project!
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Thanks, Liz. It was quite the adventure!
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Kudos to you for all the good writing you did during NPM! Such a great project; thanks for rounding up all the poems here for us to savor. And thanks for sharing the red cardinal poems by the kiddos. Nice work!
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Charming haiku! Cardinals do look especially nice in the snow, don’t they? I like the activeness of “let’s go look for some.” Congrats on successfully completing your National Poetry Month project!! Daily poems are TOUGH. Enjoy your notebooking!
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Thanks, Tabatha.
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WowWowWow! What an accomplishment, Christie. Well done! Well done to your Kinders too. Those poems are terrfic!
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Thanks, Michelle. I am so proud of the poet-writers they have become!
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What a great idea to spend a month with Thoreau and to write these poems. The poems from your kids at school were about one of my favorite birds. Thanks for sharing.
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My favorite, too!
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Love these Kindergarten haikus! They did a fabulous job. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks, Rose. They’ve asked me for another one!
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I bet you are exhausted! But look what you have done! I haven’t read Thoreau in a long time, but I remember that I loved his writing. Perhaps I’ll revisit it. Thanks for this brave and colorful post!
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Thank you, Karen. It was a labor of love, indeed.
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