11 - Poems Can Be Circles

Welcome to my 2020 National Poetry Month Project
See My Last 10 Poetry Projects HERE

Each day of April 2020, I will share three things:

• A dice roll of three word dice
• A video explaining one poetic technique titled POEMS CAN... You can also find these at Sharing Our Notebooks as part of my ongoing Keeping a Notebook project
• A poem inspired by one or more of the dice words and the technique

Here are All of This Month's Poems:

10 Years of National Poetry Month History at The Poem Farm

April 1 - Poems Can Go Down the Page

April 2 - Poems Can Play With Space
April 3 - Poems Can Tell a Story
April 4 - Poems Can Compare Two Things

April 5 - Poems Can Borrow a Pattern from the World
April 6 - Poems Can Define a Word
April 7 - Poems Can Rhyme
April 8 - Poems Can Not Rhyme
April 9 - Poems Can be Written in Stanzas
April 10 - Poems Can Ask Questions

And now, for today's words! 

Day 11 Words

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Thank you to Heinemann for giving away a copy of my book POEMS ARE TEACHERS: HOW STUDYING POETRY STRENGTHENS WRITING IN ALL GENRES each week of April. I will draw names from the previous week each Thursday evening at 11:59pm, and I will announce a winner each Friday. Please leave a way to contact you in your comment as if I cannot contact you easily, I will choose a different name. This week's winner is named atop the post.

If you would like to learn more about other National Poetry Month projects happening throughout the Kidlitosphere, Jama has rounded up many NPM happenings over at Jama's Alphabet Soup.  Happy National Poetry Month 2020.

I am hosting Poetry Friday today. If you have a link to leave...please do. If you are new here, please

xo,
Amy

Little Mouse Dreams Too

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If you are under 13 years old, please comment only with a parent 

or as part of a group with your teacher and class.

It's Pi Day! Celebrate 3.14159.........

Hotel Room Circles

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Students - Today is Pi Day!  On March 14, today, people the world over celebrate the amazing number that is Pi.  Last year on this day, thanks to the enthusiasm of her wonderful math teacher, our daughter Georgia memorized Pi out to one hundred places.  That was amazing, and so now I will celebrate Pi Day in my head and heart every year.

You can learn more about Pi here at Pi Day or here at Wonderopolis.  You can learn more about calculating Pi here at wikiHow.  Happy Pi Day!  Go eat pie.

This week I have had the pleasure of visiting Jone MacCulloch's blog, Check it Out.  On Wednesday, we had a chat about FOREST HAS A SONG, and today Jone is graciously sharing my poem, "Sound Waves", from the new POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR SCIENCE: THIRD GRADE STUDENT EDITION, compiled by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong.

Jamie Palmer is sharing a fantabulous list of notebook resources over at my other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks, this week.  Stop by to learn about some new books and to enter the giveaway! 

Much gratitude to Kristie Miner and the Binghamton Area Reading Council for such a lovely evening last night at Traditions at the Glen. It was simply a pleasure to share poetry with and write with such warm and wonderful teachers.

Book Display

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Kristie and Amy

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Beautiful Tables

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Happy Poetry Pi-Day!

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Stealing and Sharing - Passing it On

 Our Joke

by Amy LV

Click the arrow to hear me read this poem to you.

Students - Sometimes I plan to end a poem one way, but the poem decides to end itself another way. Writing today's verse, I planned to end with just a lonely waiting nose, no Grandpa.  The poem was going to have a sad ending.  But then the ending changed.  Partly because of difficulty with rhyme and partly because of the circle of families, I decided to bring this Grandpa tradition into the new generation.

If you are wondering whether today's poem is true for my own life, it is not. Both of my grandfathers died before I was two years old, and as my parents are both only children I do not have aunts or uncles or therefore, cousins.  So today's poemfacts are true for me, but the feeling of missing someone and wanting to keep that someone alive is very true.

This is a poem written in quatrains, and it has some near rhymes.  Notice that the second and fourth lines of each stanza end with words that have similarities in sound, but only one of the three pairs is a true rhyme.  Can you find it?

What do you long for?  What will you pass on?  Therein lies poetry.

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