Jayne did a great demo regarding poetry. I was impressed by the fact that every student could be successful with the activity. I plan to adapt the color poem to the first grade level. The demos have been very productive. I can't believe the amount of activities that I am going to take back with me to actually use in the classroom.

Wow, then to go into the afternoon also learning about poetry. Bev and I said we both want to find a book store while attending the math/literacy conference so we can buy the books we were able to view today. I want to try the stop and read a poem idea next year. I bet the my class would really benefit not only from the language perspective but I could see the benefits of stopping when several appear frustrated during math (or whatever) and read a poem and then go back to what we were doing.