Poetry Glasses

 

 

 

Today to start out our unit, I decided we needed to become poets. We did so by slipping on what Lucy Calkins calls our poetry glasses and seeing the world in a new, fresh way. We walked around the classroom looking at everyday objects and saw them in a new light. We had help from a great mentor Zoe Ryder White, who wrote the two poems below. We studied her poems to see what she saw when she put on her poetry glasses and gained inspiration to see things in a new way when we put on our poetry glasses.

 

Pencil Sharpener

By Zoe Ryder White

 

I think there are a hundred bees

inside the pencil sharpener

and they buzz

and buzz

and buzz

until my point is sharp!

 

Ceiling

By Zoe Ryder White

 

The ceiling

is the sky

for the classroom