I shouldn’t be a pushy product person blogger (that just rolls off the tongue) but I just finished an entire unit of Poetry for Kindergarten and I am so excited to not have to worry about this next year! Of course, it’s the end of the year and we only have one full week left…but now I don’t have to think about it for the Fall. Each week, we were all running in to each other’s rooms asking what poem we had for the week. Then if you got one and it wasn’t up to snuff in the design category…forget it. We had some seriously rough looking poems going home in the poetry notebooks this year.
After you start buying TpT products and then creating your own, you just expect more visually appeasing (cutesy…) hand-outs. That is where the Fairy Tale Unit came from! I could not send home some 1985 version of the 3 Little Pigs re-tell. I just couldn’t.
I am getting to the point that I am creating things just so it doesn’t look like it came from my grandmother’s Kindergarten teacher.
I thought this unit would be easy to just “throw” together since I had some of the poems already. Wrong.
This took me longer than any other product I have ever created but I also feel like it is a staple in my classroom and it needed to be done. I love using poetry for fluency and expression. I feel like it’s one of the most important components to my literacy time.
There are also 5 different activities that I created to go along with each poem. I plan to have a regular poetry station next year where they students have the poem for the week and they work on different skills like rhyming, syllables, visualizing and sight words.
Now that I’ve told you how excited I am about it…I would love to give one away! Enter today and I’ll pick a winner on Monday 🙂
We do poetry journals and these would be PERFECT!!!
Kimberly Ann
Live, Laugh, I love Kindergarten
Fingers crossed lady!
This pack of poems is great! Did you come up with all those poems yourself?
Brittany
Lovely Literacy and More
Girl…I wish I was that good! I came up with about 10 of them. The other ones had been in my poetry folder for a few years and I really have no idea where they all came from! A lot of them had been put together by other K teachers from years past and it just became a big collection of raggedy poems that needed some polishing up 🙂
I saw these early this morning – and they were immediately placed in my wishlist!!
I am going back to K after 5 years in ESE prek. I really want to do poetry journals/shared reading – this looks perfect!!
Thanks for having the giveaway 🙂
Connie
Yay! You are going to love Kindergarten!!!
I would love your poetry unit! It’s so cute! Just what I need for a poetry station! Thank you! Jennastanleyballo@gmail.com
Hooray! Good luck 🙂
Glad you took the time. Putting poetry about at stations is a weakness of mine. Love that you created a years worth.
Jenn
prlhrbr @yahoo.com
I think having a year’s worth will help me keep everything organized. It’s always about trying to make it a little bit easier 🙂
These look great! I already do poetry stations and notebooks, but am always looking for more great themed poems!
Rebecca Thompson
thompsonr574@strose.edu
Thanks Rebecca!
Your word problems look great! Thanks so much!
kellybrown28021@gmail.com
You are so welcome 🙂 Hope you enjoy using them!
Would love to be a winner!
Good luck!
This is awesome!!!
Nicki
Mrs. Thigpen’s Kindergarten
Thanks! And with the way your luck has been going with giveaways…ha
This is AWESOME Elizabeth!!!!! I’m wondering the same thing as the other Brittany– did you write the poems?!
Amazing job!
Brittany
Closing the Gap… in a Cute Outfit!
Thanks girl! No…I didn’t write them all. I just wrote some of them 🙂
Your pack looks amazing! Give yourself a big pat on the back! Hope I win!
Karen
anappleadayinfirstgrade.blogspot.com
Thank you!
So great! I’m moving from 1st back to K next year and this is a must have!
Lucky you!!! Do you loop?
My BFF kindergarten teacher would LOVE these!
Awesome! Tell her to get over here and enter to win 🙂
WOW!!! You should be pushing product! This pack is AMAZING! 🙂
Melinda
melchase@live.com
Thanks so much!
These are aewsome! Would love to win these!
Good luck!
I love your blog, especially the adorable owls 🙂 the poetry is super cute!!
So sweet…thank you!
Thanks for the chance of winning the Poem pack. This would be a great addition to our collection of poems we put in our Purple Poetry folder.
Blessings on the rest of your year.
Debbie
deb81992@yahoo.com
You too!
This looks like a great pack! Fingers and toes crossed 🙂
Sara
Polka Dot Kinders
Thank you! Crossing fingers and toes for ya 🙂
This looks like a great poem pack.
Thanks!