In first grade, students are beginning their poetry unit, which is the foundation for their curriculum showcase in March. First, the students explored poetry as art and a style of writing, and now they are examining different forms such as haikus and free verse poems. For their free verse poems, first graders are working on showing the reader what the poem is about with descriptive language instead of telling the reader directly. Later, students will try their hand at cinquains, I Am poems, shape poems, and acrostics!
– Julia Fox, first grade teacher
