Poetic License

Torina

by Lily

9/26/11

Soft, soft

milk

lick, lick

meow, meow

sniffy

purring

loving.

If you hit her she will scratch.

So pat her and be nice,

and let her on the couch.

Little tongue.

Lately I've been messing around with having Lily make up some poetry. I read something about 5 senses poetry, which is a method used to get young kids started in making up their own poems. By using their 5 senses a very young child can begin to articulate how they perceive something and have it written down into a poem.

Lily is 3 1/2 years old right now. She loves taking an object or something she saw and telling me about it while I jot it down. When we are done with one she proudly clips it to the refrigerator and has her dad read it before he can even get his keys set down.

I had meant to share this back in September but you know how life goes. So I figured I'd share a few of the ones that we've done. I think it's a neat way to get a young child to really think about something and then find the words to describe it. I have an idea of what I'm going to do when I get a bunch of them collected but we'll get to that when the time comes.

Butterfly

by Lily

9/21/11

Yellow wings

nectar dinner

flitter, flitter

soft.

Up in the sky

On the ground

land on flowers.

Leaves

By Lily

11/3/11

Soft leaves

scratchy leaves

very nice leaves.

Yellow and green

brown branches.

When you step on them they make noise.

Crunchy

Crunchy noises.

They are falling down.