What is Poem in Your Pocket Day? It’s a day to enjoy and share poetry. It’s very simple at IST. Carry a poem in your pocket, or take one from the many poetry pockets posted around school today and this week. Read it aloud to a friend, then listen to his or her poem. You [...]
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Going on a Poetry Bear Hunt with Michael Rosen
April 17th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Elementary Topics
April is Poetry Month at IST. The Spoken English committee is organizing poetry recitals for the elementary and secondary schools on Friday, 27 April. To help the elementary students prepare for it, our library sessions this week have centered on the elements of an excellent oral performance. Michael Rosen, UK Children’s Poet Laureate from 2007 [...]
Art and Poetry of Douglas Florian
April 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments · General Topics
I already knew I liked the poet Douglas Florian, but after reading every one of his books in our library collection for the 8-1-1 Challenge, I like his work even more. Douglas Florian is a poet and an artist. Amazon lists 48 titles by him. Of these we have 18 and after this week, it [...]
The IST Librarians’ 8-1-1 Challenge
April 5th, 2012 · 1 Comment · General Topics
As part of our celebrations for Poetry Month, we IST librarians have accepted a challenge posed by Matthew Winner of The Busy Librarian blog to read every single book in a particular section of the library. Since April is Poetry Month we decided we’d try to read every poetry book with the call number 811. [...]
Poem in Your Pocket
April 26th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Mark your calendars! Poem in Your Pocket Day is on Friday, 29 April. Participating is very easy: Keep a poem in your pocket that day, and share it with everyone! Here are a few photos of our youngest students practicing sharing their poems. These nursery and kindergarten students are reading poems extracted from Hand Hand [...]
Don’t Call Alligator Long-Mouth
April 25th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Grace and Sunny read John Allard’s Don’t Call Alligator Long-Mouth Till You Cross the River. John Agard is one of the poets featured in our Poetry Lives trading cards. Want to collect all the cards? Come to the library and read a poem, check out a poetry book, tell us how poetry has affected you, [...]
Poetry That Sticks!
April 16th, 2011 · 4 Comments · General Topics
April is Poetry Month and we’re off to a sticky start! See some examples of the poetry our community has been creating. Be sure to come to create more on our giant magnetic poetry board.
April is Poetry Month
April 13th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Celebrate Poetry Month! Read a poem out loud. Recite one to a friend. Check out a book of poetry. Pack a poem with your child’s lunch. Come to the library and create a poem on our enormous magnetic poetry board. Collect all nine “Poetry Lives” unique trading cards.
Earth Day Poetry Podcast
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · General Topics
There were three sessions of students who participated in Choral Poetry on Earth Day. The recordings of the podcasts can be found for each session below: earth day choral poetry—session 1 earth day choral poetry—session 2 earth day choral poetry—session 3 Poems that were read are the following: Spring Welcome by Deborah Ruddell A million [...]
Poem-in-Your-Pocket
April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · General Topics
April is Poetry Month! Library lessons will be focusing on poetry for the next couple of weeks. Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day will be on 21 April. Posters with poems are up. Students – everyone – are welcome to take the poems from the pockets to read and enjoy. As you enjoy the poems in the poster pockets, [...]
