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Poetry Contest for 3rd-8th Grade

September 16, 2015 By Laura

Pets Add Life, a non-profit awareness campaign about the joys of pets, is sponsoring a poetry contest for 3rd-8th graders. This is the eighth year for the contest, and teachers, if your student wins for his or her grade level, you win a $1,000 grant for either pet-related education or a classroom pet. Cool!

Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About PetsI love poetry about animals! I wrote Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets, which includes poems in all sorts of forms about many different animals. Reading this in class could get your students primed up for some pet poem writing.  Here’s one of the poems from it:

Flat-Out Ferret

bundle of energy
slick streak of fur
I race and I climb
a fuzzy-fast blur

I  burrow,  I  chew  things
I  crawl and I  leap
exhaustion takes over

          I’m
                   ready
                             to
                                       …

–by Laura Purdie Salas

There are non-rhyming poems in the book, too–great for mentor texts!

Two more favorite pet-related poetry books:

Oh, Theodore: Guinea Pig Poems, by Susan Katz

Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, by Lee Wardlaw

The contest deadline is January 31, 2016, so you have plenty of time to incorporate this into your classroom curriculum. Good luck!

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