"Time for recess!
Here we are.
messing around
on the monkey bars!
Hand over hand,
fast or slow,
calling to
our friends below.
In these two-voice poems that celebrate school and its many events, children do what children do when they are in school. They make noises, give reports, tap their pencils and swing wild and high on the monkey bars. Each performance-ready poem is accompanied by colorful characters and bright crayon drawings that cover the double page and encourage our full attention to detail. Those drawings are child-like and accompanied by poems to be shared daily, poems that kids will love to learn. The rhythms ache to be read aloud, and the back and forth of two voices or two groups of voices add such interest and fun. The school day is depicted from early morning bus ride to recess, lunch to the return home when the final bell rings.
These poems are sure to appeal to all students and offer up a wide variety of poetic forms and devices that young poets can use to fashion their own attempts at poetry.
They will quickly learn about onomatopoeia, and be able to spout that new word whenever they encounter sound effects in future readings.
Pair this collection with an earlier post, Laura Purdie Salas’s Stampede. Let poetry be part of your reading every day!
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