visiting the book fair with a Poem in Your Pocket

Mary WindmillerEvents, Parent OrganizationLeave a Comment

Each fall, the Windsor Street book fair brings together excited kids and loads of books in the transformed space of our school’s basement. A major highlight of this fun week is Poem in Your Pocket Day (click through for a full photo album). Just before lunch, students in small groups visit the book fair with a poem to share. It doesn’t matter whether the poem is a classic by well-known writer, a song lyric, or a kid-written original. Kids read, recite, or get help from other kids or volunteers reading their poems to classmates and book fair volunteers.

poems from the LGH

students from the Little Green House with the Shel Silverstein and Emily Dickinson poems they brought to share

This year, Shel Silverstein was far and away the most widely shared poet. Twenty-four students from all three classrooms read poems that were funny or silly or clever (or all three!) on topics from hot dogs to tree houses to cleaning your room. And some students from the Upper Elementary class shared poems from memory they’d studied or written in last month’s poetry unit. There were collaborative poems, a reading accompanied by sign language, and almost too many laugh-out-loud readings to count.

be an early bird poem lower el poets Natalia's poem

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