Poetry in the Elementary Classroom and a Freebie

Poetry in the classroom motivates reading, develops phonemic awareness, practices sight words, builds vocabulary, and the list goes on. I love seeing the face of an aspiring reader when they realize they've read a sentence independently for the first time. These joyous moments are why I create resources that will help these learners... blossom into confident readers. 

Poetry Notebook Pages

You can implement poetry right from the first week of school with these poetry notebook pages. These original poems, written by Let's Learn S'more and designed by The Barefoot Teacher can be added daily, weekly, or as your plans allow. These were so fun to create and the response to them has been overwhelming!

Numbers & Colors Poetry

There are several resources to choose from: phonics, sight words or numbers & colors.  Each resource comes with several different options with and without blanks for students to fill in, both color and black / white. Laminate the full color version to create a classroom book. 

    Phonics or Sight Words Poetry

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For additional Poetry notebook resources or to purchase the bundle visit......

 The Barefoot Teacher

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Another resource that you might like is the Rhyme and Read emergent readers. There are 6 readers to choose from, each one comes in both a color and a  cut and paste version.  Besides rhyming, I tried to include some other skills as well, such as number recognition and positional words. The reader themes are frogs, ocean, farm, bugs, forest animals, and bees. 

Rhyme & Read Emergent Readers

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If your students love word searches.....these ones are mixed with poetry. These are available with monthly themes. Each original poem has highlighted words that student can find in the word search. 

 

Poetry Word Searches

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Bugs on Parade..............spring, bugs, and poetry go hand in hand! Bundle this up or purchase separately. Each page of the reader is a line of an original poem. Students will love to create their own reader with the cut & paste version. In the bundle, you will also find a poetry word search. Let your students create their bug hats and wear them as they have their own bug parade or participate in the write the room activity.

Bugs on Parade Bundle

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Click below to get a sample from the poetry notebook pages!

Poetry Freebie

I have loved poetry since I was a child, and I have really enjoyed creating these resources! I hope that your students enjoy them too and fall in love with poetry as much as I did. 

Let's Learn S'more

                        

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Spring Themed Resources

 Spring is such a fun time for learning with the anticipation of plants and flowers busting through the ground, beautiful colors all around, weather to talk about, kites flying in the wind and let's not forget about bugs and butterflies!  Let's look at some spring themed resources that will support your classroom or at home learning!

Kites Positional Word Reader

                            

This kite themed emergent reader is a fun way to learn about positional words! Where will my kite take me? This comes in full color or students can make their own reader with the black and white version.

The cut & paste version adds an additional challenge as students select where the kite goes. They will love creating their very own books to read again and again.
                  

Cut & Paste Reader

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Spring into some math fun with these monthly themed math pages! 

Spring Math Bundle

These are geared toward kinders and made with the standards in mind.

Perfect for morning work, daily review, math centers, or at home practice.

                                                                      

The monthly theme is a great way to keep students engaged. Students look forward to seeing the new monthly themes.

Life Cycle Resources

What would spring learning be without the talk of life cycles and butterflies? 

Butterfly Life Cycle Bundle

This math & literacy resource includes so many different ways to incorporate learning about butterflies into your spring themed learning.

Posters and Writing Activities

Place these butterfly posters around your room for write the room and other writing activities. 

Emergent Reader Cut & Paste

Keep the theme going with this reader. Students can complete each page of this reader as they learn about the butterflies life cycle.

Learning Cube and Graphing

For some graphing fun students can create a learning cube to use for these graphing activities. There is also a bonus   poetry word search.

          

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               I love poetry and with April being 

        poetry month it is good time to incorporate 

                    it into your spring learning!  

Poetry Word Searches for Spring

 Each spring themed poem has highlighted words for the student to find in the word search. These can be laminated to use in centers again and again. 

        

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Students love readers and these are another way to celebrate spring. The first is about spring words, students can fill in the picture on each page that matches the spring word.

Spring Words Reader

Flowers Positional Words

The second reader is about flowers and is a positional word reader.

I hope you found just the right spring themed resource for your classroom or at home learning to add to your spring time fun!

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