Oh my gosh, it’s Poetry Friday. The month is starting to get away from me. We’re prepping for a move–more on that later. Meanwhile, make sure to visit Catherine Flynn for a wonderful draft of a poem of hope in defiance of hate and the Poetry Friday Roundup!
For National Poetry Month 2021, I’m posting an equation poem each day. Maybe with an image, maybe without. I needed something very accessible and doable this year! Maybe you feel the same way? I’d love for you to join me, and here are several options for sharing your own or your students’ equation poems:
- in the comments below
- on social media with #EquationPoem–and be sure to tag me, please! (@LauraPSalas on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook)
- on the Padlet on my bookpage here
Here’s today’s equation poem–went to our favorite Mexican restaurant last night. Randy’s weakness is mole, and mine is churros. (Surprise, surprise.)
And if you love equation poems, check out my Snowman-Cold=Puddle: Spring Equations, published by Charlesbridge and with gorgeous art by Micha Archer.
Happy poeming!
P.S. Click here if you want to see all of this month’s equation poems!
P.P.S. If you like these, you might also love This Plus That, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jen Corace, and Mathematickles, by Betsy Franco and Steve Salerno.
14 Responses
(packing + moving) x anticipation = mixed emotions
Glad you have found your new digs! And hopefully no need to dig out of anymore snow this April!
Maybe, maybe not on the new digs. Still some issues. And appraisal still not back on our own place. So the whole thing could still fall through. But mixed emotions is so true!
oh hoping it will work out for you.
Oh, I can smell them from here!
This makes me so hungry! Yum! This is such an accessible form of poetry! Thank you for sharing every day!
Yum! I love your equation poems. You make it look so easy!
Yes, those churros are very good! I haven’t had one in a long while, Laura. Maybe for takeout! But, glad you had one and a nice dinner out, too.
Your equation poem sounds yummy! I only had a bite of my daughter’s churro one time because I’m gluten free, but it was delicious. Today we had 36 mph winds, but it didn’t snow and it was warmer.
(36 mph winds — snow) + sun = spring
birth + foal = amazement This one is from a memory when the girls were four and six and we
took riding lessons. I went to check on the mare I used to ride and she had just given birth to her foal. The placenta was still on the foal. I stood there in amazement with my mouth open for a second and ran to get the owner. The owner let me watch her clean up the mare and the foal. Then, my children were allowed in the barn. It was such an amazing experience!
WOW! What an experience. Have you read, listened to, or watched James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small, etc.? I think you would like them. I read them as a teen and loved them and am recently listening to the new audio versions.
It was thrilling! The owner was so happy that I ran to get her because there were many things she had to do very quickly for the health of the mare. They had a sign up Foal Patrol, which meant if anyone saw her going into labor, they had to run to get the owner. No, I haven’t read any of those books, but I always wanted to. Thank you for reminding me! 🙂
Heavenly yum! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
I’m really enjoying these equation poems — it’s a new form for me and I’m getting inspired to try it!
You and your sweets!!
I miss me some Churros…and all things Mexican food. But your equations ‘solved’ my memory problem. 😉