April Ideas

It is hard to believe that April is almost upon us and Spring Break is just a couple of weeks away. Upon returning from Spring Break, there is the push toward EOGs. Sometimes in that rush, we overlook a great opportunity to bring fun back into the classroom. Did you know that April is National Humor Month? It is also National Poetry Month. What a great excuse reason to combine the two and lighten up just a bit. I have found a few resources that you can use.

ReadWriteThink has several interactive tools to use to write your poetry as well as lesson plans for all grade levels.

Thinkfinity has combined resources on poetry and humor, again for all grade levels.

Museum of Humor provides educational articles, lesson plans, and printables for using humor in your classrooms. I like this site provides some humor related lessons for every subject.

Finally, Education World has a lesson plan on creating Funny Poetry Mobiles.

Pull the computer mic out of storage and incorporate some of these ideas with fluency practice. Allow the students lots of practice and then let them record in Audacity. Bring in background music and sounds that will enhance the reading and turn the recording into a MP3. Viola, you will have lots of material for a listening center.

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