Art & Poetry 1.5: MS & Upper Elementary

 Hi folks,

For our final class of the first quarter, we showed all the acrostic poetry and art projects. It was so fun to see everyone's ideas in their poems come to life on their canvases! Then the students wrote an ekphrasis (a poem based off or inspired by an artwork/painting) about one of the famous works of art we studied this quarter. The middle school students wrote their own poem, and the upper elementary students were in pairs of two. Eric and I were available for spelling and transcribing help, but most of the work was done by the kids. I'll be sending pictures of the results in a separate email or two if anyone wants to see them! When they were finished, we took the poems a block away down the street to a community poetry box, similar to a Little Free Library, where we left the poems we created as a gift for future strangers to read. 

The sign on the poetry box was a perfect summary of our class goal! 

I hope your children are inspired to read and write poetry more now! Art is for everyone, and anything can be made into art. My deeper wish is that they will see the connections between words and visual art, and be moved to draw their own connections with stories, emotions, pictures, words, thoughts, music, dance, and all other creative endeavors they undertake.

Best,

Alyssa