My celebration of National Poetry Month with my students has been interrupted many times by testing, field trips, and now spring break, but this week I had a few days to work with my youngest students, grades 1-3, on origami and poetry.
In a teacher workshop last week, I learned how to make an origami fox. I brought the activity to my little ones and we wrote Fib poems about foxes. A Fib poem follows a syllable count that corresponds to the first 6 numbers of the Fibonacci series, 1,1,2,3,5,8.
Here is Erin’s. She put her origami fox in a snow scene and made the poem appear in a flip-open book.
On Thursday, we made origami envelopes, read I Haiku You, and wrote love haiku. Some favorite teachers are going to be very happy.
Best teacher ever
makes origami poems
shine in the classroom.
So. Much. Fun!
What a great combination of art, writing, and math–fun!
Love every bit, Margaret, especially Erin’s fox peeking over the cover of her book-just great, as is the fib poem. Thanks for sharing!
Lucky lucky kids in your class to get to do both origami and poetry!
What fun – I loved Erin’s fox, too.
So fun! Those teachers sure will be happy!
These are just foxy-fantastic! Thanks for sharing – I hope the young creators are proud of their work. :0)
oh to make poetry shine in the classroom – radiant! 🙂
What a cool idea! My students made pocket poems last week. Their teachers (I was visiting) construct a bulletin board with “denim” pockets, which you can lift the “handkerchief” poems out of. That origami fox is adorable.
“Best teacher ever,” huh. Why am I not surprised with fun classwork like this! The origami envelopes would be just right for “poem in your pocket” day too.
Thanks for stopping by. I don’t know why I didn’t think of the envelopes for Poem in your Pocket day, but we will still be on break. Maybe next year.