Exploring poetry in your homeschool? Here's an easy poem to write for kids; a great first introduction to poetry for kids!
Write a color poem!
We read Dr. Seuss's My Many Colored Days and wrote a simple color poem.
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My Many Colored Days is unlike many other Dr. Seuss books, but it still is a treasure to read to explore emotions, colors, description words, poetry, and much more! In the book, Dr. Seuss uses colors to describe feelings, for instance:
On bright red days,
how good it feels
to be a horse
and kick my heels!
Poetry for Kids
To explore this month's theme of poetry with our chosen book, I made a Color Poem template and then worked through the poem with my 7 year old son.
There is no right or wrong way to complete this poem, however I did encourage my son to think of specific things that were such colors.
It would be easy to simply write "Orange is a table, pencil, shirt.. etc," so I helped him brainstorm different things that were color specific.
Questions to ask to get more specific answers:
There is no right or wrong way to complete this poem, however I did encourage my son to think of specific things that were such colors.
It would be easy to simply write "Orange is a table, pencil, shirt.. etc," so I helped him brainstorm different things that were color specific.
How to Write a Color Poem
Questions to ask to get more specific answers:
1. What is Orange?
2. What does Red remind you of?
3. How do you feel when you see yellow?
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This activity could be used to explore emotions, too just like the book!
The main thing to remember that poetry is all about the experience/ reality of the writer!
Once my son completed his poem, I envisioned him using the different colors to paint a picture around his poem.The main thing to remember that poetry is all about the experience/ reality of the writer!
Here is what he created:
If you would like to make a color poem, I've made our Color Poem template available to you! Just click the link:
And take some time to see how the other co-hosts of the Poppins Book Nook chose to explore this month's theme: Poetry!
