Pasadena Public Library
Last week we had our Kids’ Writing Workshop Creation Stations program, and celebrated National Poetry Month with Haikubes, Paint Chip Poetry, Reverse Poetry and Blackout Poetry: Kids got to spend 10-15 minutes at a time at each station and then move on to another activity. Their creativity was constantly flowing, […]
On April 21, our Kids’ Writing Workshop for ages 8-12 met to do some poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. We started with a poem template based on a poem by George Ella Lyon called “Where I’m From”: Where I’m From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. […]
Book Inspiration Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson We read the poem “second daughter’s second day on earth” which contains many references to the various events going on around the country at the time that Jacqueline Woodson was born. Then, we used a timeline to learn about the historical events […]