{"id":18087,"date":"2018-04-24T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=18087"},"modified":"2018-04-23T23:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:30:33","slug":"kids-poetry-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/kids-poetry-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Poetry Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

What poems are you sharing this month?<\/p>\n

Last week, I did my first Kids Poetry Camp for ages 6-8. \u00a0The camp, called Kids Creative Writing Camp, was set up for a month of workshops for budding writers. One of the librarians asked me to start out the camp with poetry. \u00a0We’ve offered Kids, Tween and Teen Camps at the library for the past few years with a variety of themes including, writing, STEM, music and art but this was exciting since it was for a small group of elementary-aged children. The room was set up with colorful butcher paper on the floor, markers, crayons, pencils, pens and a selection of puppets! Imagine mouse, snake, peacock and duck puppets. Tables were set up around the room with poetry books on display including With My Hands Poems about Making Things<\/em> by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater<\/a> and more!
\nWhile the children were arriving, I had them think about \u201cWhat is Poetry?\u201d After settling in, I asked everyone to write “What is Poetry?” in their note books. They wrote down the first thing they thought of – Poetry is happiness, poetry is rhyming, poetry is donuts.\u2026 I mentioned that at the end of the day, we would look at the question again and add more ideas about poetry.<\/p>\n

We talked about different forms of poems – An ode, concrete (one of my favorites), acrostic, haiku, A – Z poems and more. \u00a0We started with an acrostic poem and used the letters in their name to write a poem about themselves. Hmmmm, luckily we helped each other out – especially if someone in the group had two of the same letters in their name like Emma – two M\u2019s!<\/p>\n

I moved on to Haiku poems – 3 lines, 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. \u00a0I shared Seeing Into Tomorrow\u00a0<\/em>by Richard Wright and Nina Crews.<\/a> It’s a perfect new children’s poetry book to read aloud and learn about Haiku poems. \u00a0I love the illustrations too! We spent time reading aloud \u201cSay Mr. Beetle\u201d and \u201cThe Clouds Are Smiling.\u201d \u00a0We talked about Wright and why he wrote Haiku poems. We discussed things we love to do and would want to write about. Music was a common theme so we decided to write Haiku\u2019s about music. My favorite last line in one of the students poems is \u201cListen to the Beat” – 5 syllables!<\/p>\n

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Your thinking about the puppets? Anytime I do a poetry camp with writing or any camp for children, I always include a group art or writing project on butcher paper. It\u2019s big, it\u2019s easy to write on and fun to display. Next, an ode poem! We yelled out words about each animal puppet – for Duck – yellow, splash, water, waddle! We talked about each animal and what they do, eat, live, etc. Everyone decided to focus on the peacock and wrote an Ode to a Peacock – describing feathers, thinking about what they do and more!<\/p>\n

While at times writing was tricky for the 6 year olds, sticky notes and writing out the words together helped. Also, group poems and sharing words aloud helped.<\/p>\n

I love creating Poetry Camps at the library. My favorite Tween Poetry Camp was last year and ended with a poetry cake! Poems about a cake, on a cake! \u00a0After, we yelled out the poems while eating cake. But that\u2019s another poetry camp story.<\/p>\n

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April is National Poetry Month! What new favorite poetry books are checked out at your library?<\/p>\n

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