Floor-etry

Have you seen floor-etry on Pinterest? Last year I saw this pin and had to try it. I can't believe I forgot to share it with you! I have been sorting my pictures because I take tons and I found these and realized I never shared. I didn't get a chance to do floor-etry again this year but I'm going to make sure I block out enough time for it next spring.

I did this with second grade but I think it would work well for any of my grade levels except K because it would be a lot of writing. My first graders could do it by spring. At the time, the kids were studying fairy tales in the classroom so I decided fairy tale characters would be a great topic for our poems. I also tried to make it a little more structured since they hadn't done much poetry in the library so they wrote simile poems describing a fairy tale character they had studied in the classroom. They worked in groups of two or three.

After the kids wrote out their poems, they copied each line onto a sentence strip, which I laminated but in retrospect didn't need to do.

Then the kids arranged their poem however their group liked. This was really interesting to watch because each group was so different.
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After they were arranged the way the kids wanted, I added velcro tape to the back of each sentence strip so it stuck to the rug. We tried to put them in less trafficky areas of the library. I kept them out for a few weeks and they held up pretty well.
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