Three days. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Three days to inspire. What can I do in the three days before we break for spring that will make students want to come to class, be excited to write?

My friend, cousin, composer, author, musician, teacher, Regina Baiocchi, hosts a Haiku Festival every year. Submissions are due March 31st, but my students will be on break, so I decided we would spend our three days together living and loving haiku.

I began today with a walk around the school looking for inspiration, created a language-generation sheet, assigned four students with watches to be the “docents,” and set students out on an in-school field trip, a gallery-walk of the art and beauty in our surroundings. Enjoy a few pics of our school.

Please join us in April for #verselove2019 as we write a poem a day to celebrate National Poetry Month. Click here to learn more and sign -up!

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Katy Collins

Awesome idea and what a great way to get kids engaged! Good luck!!

Tracey

For the past few years April has meant a daily poetry challenge for my sixth grade students. They love it! How cool of you to sponsor such an event for teachers– I’m looking forward to checking it out. Thank you!

Darin Johnston

A few things here:

1) You have a beautiful school! I love the plants in the plastic piping and the stone walls! We are getting better at making our school a comfortable space, but it takes time and money.

2) Thank you for being brave and doing the writing AND vlogs. I enjoy both and appreciate that effort.

3) Thank you for the link for Verse Love. I will share that with the ELA teachers in our middle school!

And thank you for your slice today! 🙂