Kitty Socks
by Amy LV
Students - one of the good things about having a theme writing week is that your mind chews on your theme all of the time. I've found myself thinking about socks on many occasions this week, considering different types of socks, who wears what kind, expressions with socks, anything socklike. Today's poem idea came as I snuggled our fuzziest cat, Mini Monster, who does not have socks at all!
This is poem #6 of sock week, a week of writing a new poem about the same topic each day. You can read more about this challenge, inspired by Jamie Palmer's fifth grade students here. You can read and comment on these students' poems-about-one-subject on their kidblogs. You can read several same-subject poems by homeschoolers Nathaniel and Jessica at FamilySchool. Trust me: it will be a treat for you to visit these student poem spots.
Teachers - a challenge such as this one mirrors what poets do when they write a collection around one topic. Choose an idea and examine it from all angles, just as you would a beautiful shell, or an emerald, or your own child. There are so many possibilities, and each of us has doorways into writing that no other person can find.
This month brought us the 2011 Comment Challenge, hosted by Pam Coughlan and Lee Wind. The goal of this challenge was to leave 100 comments at children's literature blogs between January 6 and January 26. Lee Wind designed the logo, including all 131 mastheads of the blogs that participated. You can find The Poem Farm's logo in the bottom right corner.
Yesterday I won three books at the culmination of the 2011 Comment Challenge. Lucky me...I found great new blogs and soon I'll have new books to read. Thank you Pam and Lee!
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