Y is for YET
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We're pet lovers here at Heart Rock Farm. With 2 dogs, 5 cats, a rabbit, 7 sheep, 14ish chickens, and a fish, (and two class pet guinea pigs spending the weekend), there is always a creature to love. I'm a great believer in pets making people kinder and more responsible too. So when I sat to write a poem using the word YET, I thought of NOT YET, and then I thought about things that parents might say NOT YET about.
Our family is trying to learn to say NO MORE when it comes to pets!
Students - This short and simple poem is written in rhyming couplets - each pair of two lines rhymes at the ends of the lines. I do not write often in couplets, but this poem felt so simple and sad that I wanted the meter to match. What do you notice about the syllables? Do you notice anything else about this poem? (Hint - look at the ending.)
Our family is trying to learn to say NO MORE when it comes to pets!
Students - This short and simple poem is written in rhyming couplets - each pair of two lines rhymes at the ends of the lines. I do not write often in couplets, but this poem felt so simple and sad that I wanted the meter to match. What do you notice about the syllables? Do you notice anything else about this poem? (Hint - look at the ending.)
Over at my other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks, there are two new peekable notebooks. So if you are a notebook-keeper, a notebook-keeper-hopeful, or a teacher who uses notebooks in your classroom, please don't miss Suz Blackaby's post about her process and word tickets or Allan Wolf's post about wall writing and butt books.
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Yet. A great word.
ReplyDeleteCheck out Peter Johnston's new book OPENING MINDS. He's got a lot to say about YET.
I'm still waiting to get another pet, but not yet. I'm just too busy out of the house to leave a dear pet alone so much, but your poem, Amy, connected to a student I had that wanted a dog so much she ended up volunteering at our local shelter just to get some pet time. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAmy,
ReplyDeleteYour poem brings to mind something that happened when my daughter was in first grade. My Sara always brought home books about kittens and puppies and bunnies from our school library. She loved Jiggles the bunny that her teacher had rescued and kept in school as the class pet. One day near the end of the school year, her teacher--who was an amazing educator and one of the kindest and most loving people that I have ever met--said to me, "Will you get your kid a pet?"
She was right. Sara needed a pet of her own to love and to cuddle and to care for. My husband and I got her a cat for her eighth birthday