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Playing with Words: Poetry Projects for Kids

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In honor of National Poetry Month, I’m sharing two of our recent poetry projects at Simple Kids today. Here’s a sneak peek: From rhyming lines to haiku to free verse, I love sharing poetry with my daughters. We think of poems as paintings made with words, and they are a wonderful way for kids to [...]

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Spring Acrostic Poems

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{Updated from a post at Early Bird Homeschool, April 2010. The girls wrote these poems when they were 5 and 7 years old.} Poetry is one of our favorite ways to play and create with words. After reading Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur, we wrote our own acrostic poems to celebrate Spring. Acrostic [...]

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Rainbow Poems

We have been having a crazy mix of rain and sun (and hail!) – just the perfect weather for rainbow-hunting!  With rainbows on our mind, I gave the girls this simple rainbow poem coloring sheet: Natalie decided to make her poem about rainbow-colored fruit, and Delaney was using Lois Ehlert’s Planting a Rainbow for rainbow [...]

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Turkey Pet Rocks and Thankful Poems

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Good morning! I am actually quite eager to jump into Christmas decorating, but I’m trying to hold out and savor these few days leading up to Thanksgiving. Today we are going to write Thankful Poems – basically just a fill-in-the-blank outline. This is the outline we’ll use: I’m thankful for _____ and ______ and ______. [...]

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