PLANT A WORD GARDEN
What is your favorite word?
Dragonfly,
Rainbow,
Watermelon?
Plant a word seed in your heart.
Water with music.
Weed out worries.
Watch your word grow.
Harvest a poem.
© 2019 Margaret Simon. All rights reserved.
Click HERE to read this month's interview with Karen Boss, Editor at Charlesbridge. Her challenge this month is to write a poem in second person, speaking directly to a kid or kids about something that you think is important for them to know.
Post your poem on our June 2019 padlet. While some contributions will be featured as daily ditties this month, all contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration on Friday, June 28th. One lucky participant will win a copy of I Am Someone Else: Poems About Pretending, collected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and illustrated by Chris Hsu, available online for preorder, and coming to a bookstore near you on July 2, 2019.
Spoken like a true seed-spreader, Margaret. I'm sure there are many, many students who have benefited from this advice. Thank you for planting our first seed this month!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feature today?
DeleteOh, Margaret, this is wonderful, a metaphor to hang up as a reminder for watering poems! Good beginning to the month, as Michele wrote!
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. I want to have a word garden in every classroom.
DeleteThis is perfectly charming. Thanks for such a day brightener.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful "Word Garden" you've created Margaret! :)
ReplyDeleteLovely!
ReplyDeleteLove this! Planting words is a delightful way to garden.
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