Poetry and Poems for Kindergarten and 1st Grade w Activities and Fluency Lessons

Poetry for shared reading? Absolutely! Each poem of the week is perfect for you to use with your kindergarten or first-grade students. These poems are set to a familiar tune that your students can sing along with. Easy fluency practice that is both fun and engaging. These daily shared reading poems are themed. Your students will love these poetry lessons! You will love how easy they are to use.

Rhyming, rhythm, and song are all a part of these kid friendly poems.

HOW THESE POETRY UNITS WILL HELP YOU:

☀ I have done all of the planning for you with a 5-day fluency plan. This will give your ideas to include during your shared reading time. This will allow you to teach your students with ease.

☀ Because my poems are set to familiar tunes, your students will learn them quickly. You will find them singing the poems again and again... even when it is not poetry time!

☀ Poetry for shared reading provides quick activities that are great for community building.

☀ These poems are given in a variety of formats so you can select the version that works best for you. You can make a pocket chart activity, display the poem under your document camera, or in Google Classroom or Seesaw.

EACH POEM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

→ Common core standards aligned chart.

→ 5-day fluency plan so you can keep these poetry activities going all week

→ An emergent reader for each poem

→ A student copy for their poetry notebook

→ An "I Can" chart so students can work independently at the poetry center

→ Two center activities you can use during your poetry time or place them in your student centers.

HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND BY MONTH:

⭐ AUGUST/SEPTEMBER FEATURES BACK TO SCHOOL POEMS:

• Name Chant: We always want to start the year with student names. Why not include this in your poetry time?

• Apples: Your students will love counting apples as they sing this poem.

• Family: Families are all different. Brothers? Sisters? Both? or None? Your students will love this family poem.

• A Sticky Situation: We all know how glue can get out of control in kindergarten!
This poem is all about using glue correctly!

• Time for School: This is a fun back to school poem that has been set to a familiar tune.

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

★ classify shapes

★ initial sounds s p l

★ initial sound match a-z

★ classify nouns

★ initial sounds m d f

★ classify boy girl

★ rhyming ee ie

★ classify colors

★ classify set values

★ rhyming number/object

⭐ OCTOBER FEATURES THESE FALL AND HALLOWEEN POEMS:

•Higgiety, Piggiety, Pop! This is a fun farm themed poem

•Fire! Fire! Students will love this fire safety poem!

•The Itsy Bitsy Spider This is a great poem to use around Halloween (without mentioning Halloween). Add your students' names and they will giggle as you act out this poem.

•5 Little Bats: Bats This is another fun poem to use around Halloween (without mentioning Halloween). Students will love this counting poem and learn the word Echolocation!

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

★ rhyming at op ake

★ initial sounds t th h

★ ending sounds r d t

★ syllables 1 2 3

★ initial sounds digraph s sh

★ rhyming ose ire NOT rhyming

★ short/long vowels o ou

★ rhyming ack ou NOT rhyming

⭐ NOVEMBER INCLUDES THESE FALL AND THANKSGIVING POEMS:

• Out in the Garden: This fall poem is about raking up the leaves then jumping into the pile. Your kids will love it.

• I'm a Little Scarecrow: We love the scarecrow that is stuffed with hay. This poem for autumn is one you will want to sing all day.

• The Food Cheer: Food and Thanksgiving go hand in hand. This fun cheer is about our favorite foods.

• Five Fat Turkeys: We love counting the five fat turkeys in the poem. This is great for Thanksgiving or autumn celebrations.

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

★ ending sounds p l

★ long vowels e a

★ making words ay

★ sentences word count

★ initial sounds p m ch

★ syllables 1 2 3

★ short/long vowels i

★ short/long vowels a

⭐ DECEMBER HAS THESE CHRISTMAS AND WINTER POEMS

•Winter's Here: This winter poem is all about hibernating animals.

•Little Ole Elf: This Christmas poem is about an elf that looks after boys and girls to determine if they have been behaving.

•Reindeer Snack: This Christmas poem is about a snack you can leave for reindeer. Your kids will love it!

•Gingerbread Man: This Christmas poem has been a classroom favorite for a long time. Watch out for the fox that snip snaps the gingerbread man!

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

★ blends sn st sk sp

★ classify seasons

★ short/long vowels i

★ ending sounds r t

★ short/long vowels e

★ digraphs sh ch th

★ rhyming ox an NOT

★ ending sounds n s

⭐ JANUARY FEATURES THESE WINTER POEMS:

•Arctic Animals This poem is about animals that live in the arctic. This is a great poem to us with your animal adaptation unit.

•Mittens poem This is a fun winter poem that includes colors!

•Penguin poem Your kids will love this penguin poem and it is fun to act out too!
•Snowman poem This fun poem includes the steps on how to build a snowman!

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

★beginning sounds/ending sounds: f

★beginning sounds/ending sounds: p

★word families: ish, ing, ink

★rhyming

★short vowel word sort: u or o

★long vowel word sort: o or i

★sentence building

★syllable word sort

⭐ FEBRUARY FEATURES VALENTINES DAY AND GROUNDHOG DAY POEMS:

•Goundhog's Day The adorable groundhog may or may not see his shadow. Regardless, your students will love this Groundhog Day poem.

•A Loose Tooth Wigglely tooth grins are everywhere in kindergarten so this poem is perfect for Dental Health Month

•Monster Love Every year, this Valentine's Day poem was a favorite! this funny poem is will give you lots of giggles!

•Money, Money, Money This money poem will help students know the value of each coin.

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

★ digraphs th sh ch wh

★ blends gr tr cr

★ word family ot am

★ classify healthy/unhealthy

★ classify coins

★ short vowels e i

★ word family ell ill all

★ rhyming ee eyes ine

⭐ ST PATRICKS DAY AND MORE MARCH POEMS THAT ARE INCLUDED:

•Oviparous is a fun poem is all about animals that hatch from eggs. Your students will love learning and singing this poem.

•Luck of the Irish is a poem for St. Patrick's Day? This one is perfect. Read and sing about the tricky leprechaun.

•Your Body is a poem about our heart, lungs, muscles, and brain!

•Splish! Splash! is a fun poem about playing in the rain and getting SOAKED!

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

★ blends st tr pl

★ word family ock ack ick

★ classify oviparous/not

★ short/long vowels o

★ word family ish ash

★ rhyming matching

★ ending sounds d b

★ sentences word count

⭐ EARTH DAY, SPRING, AND MORE APRIL POEMS THAT ARE INCLUDED:

•Recycle is a great poem for Earth Day. Students will learn about reduce, reuse, and recycling!

•Plant Song is a poem about the life cycle of plants!

•Spring Celebration is a fun poem that celebrates the signs of spring!

•Stung is a silly poem about being stung by a bee. It offers a great opportunity to discuss what to do when you see a bee.

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES:

★ blends sp sm sk

★ long vowels ee ea short e

★ short/long vowels e

★ sentence correction

★ ending sounds n l

★ initial sounds blends st s

★ word family ing ink

★ rhyming matching

⭐ ⭐ ⭐MAY INCLUDES POEMS ABOUT THE OCEAN, FIELD TRIPS, AND THE END OF THE YEAR SUMMER VACATION

•In the Ocean is a poem about the animals that are found in the ocean.

•Picnic Guests is a funny poem about ants that invade a picnic

•Field Trip What could possibly go wrong on a school field trip to the zoo? This funny poem will let you know!

•Summer Vacation is a celebratory poem about the beginning of summer vacation.

PHONICS, PRINTABLES, AND WORD WORK ACTIVITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS SET:

★ short/long vowels silent e/NOT

★ sentence building X 4

★ short/long vowels u

★ blends tr dr

★ short vowels i e

WHY POETRY AND SONG?

Brain research shows that multiple areas in the brain are activated when students see print, hear music, and move. This leads to more engaged learning and JOY!!! We want students to love shared reading, so adding songs means we say good bye to boring! WOOT!

Once the weekly poem has been used, add the poem to your poetry center. Your kindergarten and first-grade students will love visiting them again and again!

NOW WITH SEESAW 1 CLICK LINKS: The poem and the sorting activities are added for SEESAW and Google Slides-friendly Powerpoint Files.

♫ Music and Video Files

I am thrilled to tell you that we have recorded MP3 and MP4 music files to go along with these poems. These music files are wonderful for your students to sing-a-long with. They are available with this additional purchase:

• Poetry Music and Video August and September

✎Interactive Notebooks

If your class uses interactive notebooks, this interactive journal resource is also available:

• Poetry Interactive Notebooks

Read how I implement this poetry resource as part of a 5-day fluency plan AND grab a free sample:

5 Day Fluency Plan with FREE Sample

LISTEN TO WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nicole says, "I love how this resource covers so many phonemic awareness and phonics skills with the use of engaging poems. My students enjoy reading the poem every week and they can definitely build on those foundational skills with the included activities. "

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Slager's Time Savers says, "I'm loving these poems, and they've went with our weekly themes. We insert the poem into our poetry books and highlight letters/words. They've also done better with the cut & paste sheets than I anticipated."

⭐⭐⭐⭐ How I Met Your Teacher says, " I always loved these poetry sets. What I love more is that they have been adapted to support my students in distance and hybrid learning through Seesaw!! They have made my teacher life much easier!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ashley G. says, "When I taught second grade shared reading was my favorite time of day. Since moving to kindergarten I have struggled with shared reading. I love this resource--it keeps students engaged and active during shared reading. Thank you for adding the SeeSaw component--it will be perfect for my students who are hybrid this year."

Enjoy!

Deedee Wills