Select the appropriate link to complete this week's poetry center work.  Remember, you must use your best handwriting as you copy a poem in your notebook.

Picnic by Judith Nicholls
This English poet has written an enjoyable poem about a picnic on an English beach. Copy the poem in your Poetry notebook. Make a connection to an outing with your own family and write about it in your Poetry notebook.
Tongue Twisters from Barking Spider Poetry
Are tongue twisters poetry? Read these and decide. Which one is your favorite? Copy it in your Poetry notebook. If you choose one-sentence tongue twisters, please copy at least 3 of them. Then write a tongue twister of your own.
Grandma's Jigsaw Puzzle by Roger Stevens
Read this poem and copy it in your Poetry notebook. To respond, complete one of these thoughts: When I read this poem, I remembered . . . When I read this poem, I felt . . . When I read this poem, I thought . . .
Fog by Carl Sandburg
Copy this poem and write a response to it in your Poetry notebook.
Virtual Poetry from SurfNetKids.com
Magnetic Poetry
Create your own poem with one of these on-line magnetic poetry sets. Your poem must be at least 6 lines long. Then copy the poem in your Poetry notebook.
If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky
Copy this Jack Prelutsky poem in your Poetry notebook. Who is speaking? Answer this question and tell how you know. This poem is an example of haiku. Haiku poems always have 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables. Write your own similar three line poem. Like Jack Prelutsky, write something that would be said by an unidentified speaker. See if your friends can guess the speaker of your poem.

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