Hi, and welcome! During National Poetry Month, I’m posting a magnipoem each day that I can. That’s a poem inspired by my simply looking at an object under a magnifying glass for 1 minute each day, and then jotting a poem. Feel free to try this with students (you can have them just get up close and personal to something and study it closely for a minute). If you want to share online, tag me (@LauraPSalas) or share here in the comments! You can see all my magnipoems here.
Here’s today’s magnipoem.
And here’s a bit of writing process.
Also, last month, illustrator Kayla Harren and I chatted with classrooms via Zoom about our picture book, Oskar’s Voyage. Here are a couple of snippets from the Q&A portion of the Zoom, with my daughter Maddie as the moderator. You might even notice a familiar Poetry Friday face here :>)
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Hope you enjoyed those! You can find lots of auxiliary materials to go with Oskar’s Voyage on the book page.
Happy reading!
[My Classroom Connections posts share a way to connect one of my books or poems to a classroom topic–often something timely that you might be covering in the next month or so. Please share this post if you have educator friends who might be interested–thanks!]