LEGO Poetry

I'm FINALLY getting around to posting about the fun poetry month activities I did at the end of last year! I think I've mentioned poetry has always been something I tended to avoid because I wasn't very comfortable with it. I was inspired to give Poetry Month a shot after seeing a lot of fun-looking poetry activities on Pinterest and by other library teachers (especially Jennifer Reed!).

One poetry activity I was looking forward to trying out all year was LEGO poetry.

I used this as a center with K-4 and it was a hit!  Many teachers even got in on the action!

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It was very interesting watching how students built their poems.  Some kids created poems that read from the top down, some from the bottom up, and some from side to side.  I was very confused by this second grader's poem until he read it to me: A book will yell at a boy.  The baby will tell the mother."