One of the products I want to share is a binder of two or three dozen of my original poems. Over the years, I wrote these poems on various topics of interest to kindergarteners: family, animals, the weather, and holidays, always popular topics with 5 and 6 year olds! Most of my poems rhyme and are based on familiar high-frequency (or sight) words. You can discover how I used them to help children learn to read by clicking on this link to an earlier post, Creating Song and Poetry Binders.
Valentine's Day is coming and I thought I'd offer one of my original poems here for you to download and print. Children can color the different hearts to correspond with the color word mentioned in each stanza.
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| Click on the word freebie to get a printable download.
This poem was inspired by a book that I enjoyed reading as a child and also read to many classes of kindergarten and primary grade children. It's called The Blue Valentine and it's by Gwen Schultz. It's still available on Amazon and, I imagine, in some public libraries. It's a sweet story about appreciating creativity which is a timeless ideal, right?
A new girl in first grade celebrates Valentine's Day by creating a special,
one-of-a-kind valentine for her teacher.
Other favorite books of mine are these three, each of them written by a wonderful author:
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This book has a really important message, empowering all readers to listen to the voice within them, in happy times and troubling ones. It's a book to read at other times of the year and in the various circumstances in which we all find ourselves.
" My heart is a window,
My heart is a slide,
My heart can be closed...
or opened up wide."
Happy Valentine's Day!
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