{"id":1115,"date":"2014-04-18T18:32:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:56:19","slug":"spine-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Spine Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of National Poetry Month, we did an activity in the library that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been interested in trying for quite some time…spine poetry!<\/p>\n

In one of those awesome \u00e2\u20ac\u0153check out the power of Twitter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d moments, Shannon Thompson<\/a>, an awesome librarian\u00c2\u00a0from Athens, Georgia, brought up spine poetry. This is something that had caught my attention before, so I tweeted two of my awesome sixth grade ELA teachers (Alaina Laperouse<\/a> and Jason Dupuy<\/a>) to see if they were interested<\/p>\n

\"TweetsSpinePoetry\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They were in, so we started thinking about how to pull it together. When I looked at our library books, I noticed that many of our spine labels covered parts of the book titles. This would not make for pretty poetry. Also, Shannon mentioned that students pulling tons of books off the shelf could get to be quite a mess.<\/p>\n

So Alaina (one of the awesome sixth grade ELA teachers who happens to be my best friend) and I took a little trip to a nearby bookstore. We picked books that we thought would make great lines of poetry for our students and snapped pictures. I cropped them down, cleaned them up, printed them on cardstock, and cut them out. Yes, this took a lot of time. However, I now have reusable \u00e2\u20ac\u0153book spines\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be reshelved! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m planning to continue to add to this collection as time goes on, but definitely continue to reuse what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already done. I can also share my document<\/a> with you to save you lots of work!<\/p>\n

We were very curious to see what poems our students would create. They absolutely had a blast! I knew I would be impressed with some of their work, and they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t disappoint.<\/p>\n

We had students take photos of their favorite poems that they created, then post them to an album on Schoology. Here are a few of my favorites:<\/p>\n

\"6\"<\/a> \"5\"<\/a> \"4\"<\/a> \"3\"<\/a> \"2\"<\/a> \"1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What are some fun things that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done to promote National Poetry Month in your school and library?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of National Poetry Month, we did an activity in the library that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been interested in trying for quite some time…spine poetry! In one of those awesome \u00e2\u20ac\u0153check out the power of Twitter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d moments, Shannon Thompson, an awesome librarian\u00c2\u00a0from Athens, Georgia, brought up spine poetry. This is something that had caught my attentionRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-lessons","category-middle-lessons","category-reflections","category-resources-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}