MS. BELL (me): So our word for this week is poetry. Who has heard the word poetry before? [Half of first graders raise hands.]
What IS poetry? It's ok if you don't know. Who thinks they might know what poetry is?...
BELL (first grader): Well, poetry is kind of like a love note. It's just... all mixed up with love. Kind of.
Nobody could follow that. All of the boys wrinkled their noses. Cynthia said something about rhyming words. I totally lost all of them.
("It's ok guys--ADULTS have a hard time with this question.")
I told them that poetry is playing with words to tell how you feel. And then they started calling out their feelings :). Which was awesome. And then I told them to think about how they would feel if they were the table. Which made them giggle a lot.
MS. BELL: Ok, raise your hand if you really don't understand what I am talking about at all. [More than half raise hands.] Mostly I felt like an idiot :). But I'm glad that we ended with giggling so that they will still maybe agree to talk about this tomorrow.
Because last week Talon (that is a girl's name) said, "I guess we're just bored without popcorn."
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i bet you're the best teacher. my first grade teacher was a shrew. mrs. wilson, no joke. i feel robbed.
ms. bell, would you please teach me first grade again?
This made me smile so much--thanks, Ben. But all of the 1st grade teachers at Central are pretty cool, and I still have a lot to learn. Yesterday I was yelling. Today was really good. I will post some poems in a while.
i want to be in your class too!
i just learned to knit, sewn, and draw if first grade.
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