Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Hey, don’t forget this Thursday is Poem in Your Pocket Day! Here are four short poems from The Poetry Friday Anthology your students can use, and here are loads more ideas for the day.
Today’s poem comes from?The Poetry Friday Anthology (Common Core K-5 edition): Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core
(Pomelo, 2013), edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong.?It’s one of my favorite?anthologies to recommend to teachers because of its extraordinary range of poets/poems and its terrific and easy teaching tips.?Today’s poem is by Charles Waters, who just might be the?most enthusiastic children’s poet I’ve ever met online. He is everywhere–a writing machine. Except that machine doesn’t do justice to his fun and joy in poems. His poem “Sack Lunch” is from the Kindergarten section?of the book (Week 11: More Food).
Sack Lunch
Whole wheat oatmeal bread,
Homemade grape jelly,
Crunchy peanut butter–
A rumble in my belly.Double chocolate cupcakes–
What a perfect snack!
Ten tiny carrot sticks?
I’d rather give that back.
–by Charles Waters, all rights reserved
And here is my Poem Starter Video:
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Love this poem, it certainly made me laugh.
Charles does humor so well!
Love this poem, it certainly made me laugh.
Charles does humor so well!
BREAKFAST PERFECTION
Whipped batter gently splatters
On Mom’s skillet, sizzling to a
Golden brown hue; each flapjack
Sounds like sparklers dancing
Around. After they are deemed
ready Mom lays them on my
favorite scuffed up blue plate. I
smother each stack with margarine
then witness them disintegrate like
ice submitting to sunshine’s glare.
After pouring dollops of maple
syrup, coating them in
Goodness, I cut a wedge of
pancake, slowly insert in my
mouth and feel any stress I’ve had
wash away. “Are they good?” Mom
Asks. I don’t respond due to being
In reverie. “I’ll take that as a yes.”
She says.
(C) Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.
I love the sound effect of them sizzling like sparklers!
BREAKFAST PERFECTION
Whipped batter gently splatters
On Mom’s skillet, sizzling to a
Golden brown hue; each flapjack
Sounds like sparklers dancing
Around. After they are deemed
ready Mom lays them on my
favorite scuffed up blue plate. I
smother each stack with margarine
then witness them disintegrate like
ice submitting to sunshine’s glare.
After pouring dollops of maple
syrup, coating them in
Goodness, I cut a wedge of
pancake, slowly insert in my
mouth and feel any stress I’ve had
wash away. “Are they good?” Mom
Asks. I don’t respond due to being
In reverie. “I’ll take that as a yes.”
She says.
(C) Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.
I love the sound effect of them sizzling like sparklers!