April is National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month.  We had fun with one of our favorite poets, Shel Silverstein.  We read his poems "Little Monkey" and "Headphone Harold" out of his book Falling Up. We did several fun activities including a mad libs to Headphone Harold.  It was fun to read the crazy poems the students came up with.

We also talked about Haiku's.  A Haiku is a poem that has 17 syllables and 3 lines to it.  The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables.  We read the book Guyku by Bob Raczka.  Guyku is a book written in Haiku format.  The students had fun with counting the syllables as we read the book.

What a fun week to be in the Library!