Poetry gets a bad rap. Maybe it was force-fed at school. Taught by a less-than-enthusiastic teacher. Or perhaps the instruction got too technical. Too sappy. Too goofy. All of the above? The best way to cut to the FUN of poetry is simple. Play a game! Engage kids in word play with poetry games to […]
Poem in Your Pocket Day Printable Booklet
Yes, I can get pretty geeked out about National Poetry Month. As a middle school teacher, I couldn’t wait for April, not because it meant test-season was over (although that too!), because it meant an entire month of teaching poetry writing to my kids. We always tried to have some kind of Poem in your […]
Looking for the Light at Christmas
Ask anyone who’s waited for a sunrise… We piled into cars – four families: grandparents, grown children, grandchildren – and drove sleepily through the gloaming towards what seemed the end of the world but was really just the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Somewhere across vast oceans, science told us, the sun would come. We […]
Oh, How He Loves Us – Christmas Poem 2017
This year, for a change of pace from our usual Truth in the Tinsel Christmas countdown activities, we had the opportunity to use The Christmas Cross Hunt book. The activities and connections between the scriptures of Jesus’ birth and death were wonderful to study this month. And as much as my kids enjoyed running around […]
