Wednesday, July 9: Color Poetry

Today we will be writing Color Poetry.  Poetry can almost be anything: sentences, a few words, a paragraph, a haiku, etc.  As a class, we will write poems about the paper full of color you completed for homework.

Example: These are the words your classmates gave you:

run, color, play, jump, eat
colorful, sweet, vibrant, bright, circular
candy, hills, coloring book, hearts, ovals

Poem 1 Example: (using only given words)

eat sweet coloring book

run vibrant hills

color bright hearts

colorful ovals play

vibrant hearts jump

Poem 2 Example: (adding small words to make sentences)

I want to eat this sweet coloring book.
The colorful ovals play and run through the vibrant hills
Who colored the bright hearts?
Who made the vibrant hearts jump?
I did.

Poem 3 Example: (shape poetry)

               sweet                                        color                                   vibrant
          eat           coloring                   hills     bright                       play        hearts
                                     book   vibrant                 hearts         ovals                     jump . . .
                                           run                                    colorful

Poem 4 Example: (rhyming poetry)

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Sugar is sweet,

And so are you.

HOMEWORK
Group 1:  Decide which example (1,2,3 or 4) you will use to write your poem.

Group 2:   If you are doing Example 3 (shape poem), get a nice sheet of plain paper of any color, and use markers or pen to write out your shape poem.  If you are doing Example 1, type your poem in an email and send it to yourself.

Group 3: Finish your poem using all of the words your classmates gave you.  Type the poem in an email and send it to yourself.  If you are doing Example 3 (shape poem), get a nice sheet of paper of any color, and use markers or pen to write out your shape poem.