Poetry Basket

One of the things I did last time I taught first grade years and years ago was......

 I worked hard to find thematic poems that incorporated the spelling words and vocabulary I was teaching.  So that is one of my goals again this time.  I don’t know exactly what poems I will be using yet however I do know poems will be an important part of my classroom.

The first thing I organized for my new first grade classroom is a poetry basket.

I made this label using graphics from Jessica Weible Graphics and the fuzzy border is from the pond and then taped it to red polka dot scrapbook paper.