Establish a classroom atmosphere that celebrates the sharing of learning. Have opportunity for students to practice new learnings. Make student learning available to the larger community, i.e. books students write are shared with other classes, students report in school paper, student work is displayed at school, etc.

Have a local poet come to school

Objective: To celebrate the poets among us.

Activity: Have a local poet come to school and read her/his poems to the children. This could even be an older student whose poetry has been recognized in some way. Have the children discuss the possibility that they are also poets themselves. Have them finish this sentence… I feel like a poet when…

Assessment: The enjoyment of the children and their understanding about the importance of the poets among us and the poet in each of us