The first page that Hadley and Harper completed on their Summer Reading Journals, was the “All About Me” page. And really, who wouldn’t want to design their own superhero cape?
But I couldn’t wait to have them try their hand at the Illustrate It page. This is the one where you take a book you read, draw an object that has something to do with the story, and write words around it, so that the words become the object. It’s a great exercise to explore theme.
When the girls did their Library/Bookstore Scavenger Hunt, they found several poetry books that they chose to take home and begin the summer with. So over lunch last week, we read some of the poem and made some pictures.
Hadley really likes Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky.
She made an object poem from Silvertein’s “Itch:”
It’s a dollar sign with a line through it, because the narrator tricks the reader into believing that if s/he will scratch the narrator’s back, s/he will get paid. This was not the case.
Hadley also made a poem for Prelutsky’s, “I Am Your Mirror Image.”
Harper worked on poems from Behold The Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems. Also by Jack Prelutsky.
After making her object poem, she found the word “mom” in, “Here Comes a Panthermometer,” and made sure to highlight that.
She decided that this cat isn’t just a cat that can tell the temperature, but it is also a mom.
It was a fun activity to do over lunch.
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What a wonderful thing to do! <3 Loved what the two children did with their chosen poems…
Thank you, Elizabeth!