You know how much I like to add flavor to our lessons. Well, every Valentines Day I find some way to incorporate Conversation Hearts into our lessons.
This year I shared my two favorite silly Valentine poems, both by clever Judith Viorst. I LOVE these poems! We analyzed the rhyming scheme in each, then, every person received a bowl of random conversation hearts with the charge to write a silly Valentine poem, trying to incorporate as many of the phrases on the candies as possible, making it rhyme and also make sense.
Here are Judith's two poems:
Short Love Poem
It's hard to love
The tallest girl
When you're the shortest guy,
For every time
You try to look
Your true love in the eye
You see
Her bellybutton.
The Lizzie Pitofsky Poem
I can't get enoughsky
Of Lizzie Pitofsky.
I love her so much that it hurts.
I want her so terrible
I'd give her my gerbil
Plus twenty-two weeks of desserts.
I know that it's lovesky
'Cause Lizzie Pitofsky
Is turning me into a saint.
I smell like a rose,
I've stopped picking my nose,
And I practically never say ain't.
I don't push and shovesky
"Cause Lizzie Pitofsky
Likes boys who are gentle and kind.
I'm not throwing rocks
And I'm changing my socks
(And to tell you the truth I don't mind).
Put tacks in my shoes,
Feed me vinegar juice,
And do other mean bad awful stuffsky.
But promise me this:
I won't die without kiss-
Ing my glorious Lizzie Pitofsky.
