Poetry Celebration

Parents and Students,

Thank you all for your part in making our poetry celebration a huge success! Students took great pride in reading their poems and it was a true reward to have so many poetic strategies come together into such beautiful language! Students shared BIG ideas and feelings in small moments, objects, and places. They saw topics in fresh, new ways and made comparisons using similes and metaphors. Precise, honest word choice, and show, not tell details helped the poems come to life! Line breaks, rhythms, rhymes, and repetition created music that pleased our ears. The fourth graders can say with confidence, "I AM a poet!"