Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Poetry Journals: Making them Matter (October Edition)

It seems a tad early to be posting something for October; however, the masses have spoken! I completely understand wanting to be prepared for the upcoming school year! It's blistering hot here and I can't even fathom working in my non-airconditioned, windows facing the courtyard, oven of a classroom! The summer has suddenly kicked into high gear and seems to be moving at a very fast pace...I just want it to s.l.o.w. down!

Before I post the actual Poetry Journal portion, I must address a small issue that I am having. Believe me when I say...I LOVE that people are reading my blog and I love sharing things with everyone!! Most of you know that #1-It takes some time and $ to create materials, #2- It takes time to upload everything you want to have on your post, #3- Creating a post that contains a lot of uploaded material is a time consuming process, that being said...any issues that you may have with Scribd, I simply cannot really help with. I can't see your computer, Mac, or laptop to know what the issue is. For those who use Apple products...I know there is some sort of issue, I don't know what it is and you need to take it up with Scribd. I don't mean to sound harsh at all, but I get TONS of emails about issues, and I just don't know how to help. I cannot send all my documents out personally to your email because well, see #1-3 above. I love you all, but I will not be sending out anymore documents that are already uploaded on the blog.

Anywho, the themes for October are the basics: spiders, monsters, pumpkins, Halloween, and fall...inventive aren't we? I have the new version followed by my old ones and a picture of the poster if I remembered to take one :) . As always, I truly appreciate you reading! I hope the rest of July is fabulous for you!

Enjoy!
Shannon

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All of my Poetry Journals can now be found on TPT, as well.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Monster

Monster

Jack O'Happy

Jack O'Happy


Five Little Pumpkins

Five Little Pumpkins


Gray Squirrel

Gray Squirrel

17 comments:

  1. Hey Shannon! I LOVE your poetry journals!! Thank you SO much for sharing your talent and hard work! You're making us all better teachers ya know....... :o)

    Cindy
    ccfirstteacher@gmail.com

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  2. Thanks you so much for all your hard work and sharing with teachers. I do a poem and week but did not have the monster or gray squirrel, can't wait to use these this fall.
    Rose
    The Wonderful World of Kindergarten

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  3. Your poetry journals are great! Thanks for sharing with us.

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  4. Thank you for sharing these. I love your work and I know my kids will too. I wanted to add that I have a Mac and know what people are talking about when things don't look right after downloading. I have found that using the most current adobe reader helps a lot. There are still some things that don't download right, but now most of them do. So if you are a Mac user having problems try updating your Adobe reader.

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  5. Thank you SOOOOOO much Shannon! Just so you know, I'm definitely using your poetry journals in my classroom this year! You rock! =) And for those who have macs.... they need to download "adobe acrobat reader". (I was having the issue when I would download your wonderful creations, it would come up streaky in areas. It's because the apple version "preview" (i think that's what it's called) messes it all up! It's as simple as that! =) Once I downloaded "adobe", everything looks great!
    Jessica

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  6. You are AWESOME Shannon!! I am so looking forward to using your poetry journals with my students next year! I know it must take you a long time to create all of these wonderful things for your students and the fact that you openly share them with everyone is so kind of you! I love your new blog design too, it is super cute!! Thank you so so much!
    Kari :)

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  7. I can't wait to use your poetry journals in my room this year! Thank you so much for all that you do! PS I use a Mac and everything works well for me.

    www.kinderkaren.blogspot.com

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  8. I loved your ideas about poetry journals! In fact, I love your blog. When I saw the poem Five Little Pumpkins, I thought about the song I had recorded and put on my website, if you would like to use it go to http://www.lindaslearninglinks.com/pumpscare.htm
    and scroll down to Poems and Songs on the Scarecrows and Pumpkins page. The download is right next to the song title. I plan on putting up a lot of songs on my website asap. My kindergarteners really liked it.
    I am a follower!
    Linda
    ateacherstouch.blogspot.com

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  9. OMG!!! You are my hero!!! This is AMAZING and EXACTLY what I needed!!!;) You are tooooo generous!!! Not too many people out there would give these kind of BIG, quality items away for free!! You are beyond awesome!! Thanks so much!
    Little Warriors

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  10. Shannon, YOU ROCK!! Thank you so much for sharing!! On a side-note, I have a MacBook Pro and have never had a problem. For Mac users that have had problems, if you open pdfs in Preview they usually do not look correct. Try using Adobe Reader...It's a free download from the Adobe site. It works every time!! :)

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  11. THanks SO much for these great ideas!

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  12. thanks so much!!! Is there going to be November and December

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  13. Hi Holli!
    Yes, as soon as I have them done there will be November and December editions!

    Thanks for all the comments everyone :)

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  14. Thanks for sharing! I started poetry journals last year but knew they could be improved. I love your tips, homework ideas and fun layouts. Thank you!!!

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  15. Thanks for sharing! This is my second year in kinder and I am sooooo excited to be more organized LOL I did poetry journals last year, so I am thrilled to see yours and see where I can improve! You are awesome!

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  16. I love the poems! My kids will love these poems for the month of October. Thanks so much for sharing!

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