By Mrs. Kliegman's and Mrs. Koukoulas' 3rd Grade Classes
On Friday, April 19th, Mrs. Kliegman's third grade class met with Mrs. Koukoulas' 3rd grade class using Google Hangout. We wrote a poem together on a Google doc. The name of our poem is In Our Desks. We modeled our poem on Jane Yolen's poem, In My Desk, from the book Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems. Jane Yolen's poem is told in the voice of a child who is upset because recess has been canceled so that students can clean out their desks. The child thinks she has only junk in her desk—and says: “So let them clean it/I don’t care.” The child then lists the pieces of junk--and then realizes that each thing in her desk is a little part of her.
School librarians are known to share their ideas and know-how. Special thanks to Shannon Miller from Van Meter Library in Iowa for posting so many creative ideas. The idea for doing this collaboration is Shannon's. In the past, our library has done some collaborative poetry by reciting "A Poem for Two Voices" with other schools, but this was much more fun!
