Poetry from Young Learners 2, “I'm from Madrid…”
I'm from Madrid….
April is poetry month in the United States and the Young Learners 2 class celebrated this by reading and learning about poetry. At the end of the month, they created visual poems about their hometowns. This activity started with a review of the five senses and how they can build our experiences and memories of different places, especially the town or city you are from. With a writing guiding frame, the students wrote poems using words to describe what they see, hear, smell, taste, and feel in their hometowns. Next, they took words and phrases from their poems to 
illustrate a self-portrait.
Pilar, Carmen, and Leyre wanted to share their poems on the blog. You can listen to them at the end of this post.
(This project was adapted for the Young Learners 2 class based on an activity from the Art is for Action blog by Renée Watson.
I'm from Madrid….
April is Poetry Month in the United States and the YL2 class celebrated by reading and learning about poetry. At the end of the month, they created visual poems about their hometowns. This activity began with a review of the five senses and how they can build our experiences and memories of different places, especially a town or a city. Using a guided writing framework, students wrote poems using words to describe what they see, hear, smell, taste, and feel in their home cities. Words and phrases from her poems were then taken to illustrate a self-portrait.
Pilar, Carmen, and Leyre wanted to share their poems on the blog. You can listen to them here:
Pilar:
Carmen:
read:
(This project was adapted for the Young Learners 2 class based on an activity from the blog Art is for Action by Renée Watson. 
