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• Gotta Book-30 Poets in 30 Days
  http://gottabook.blogspot.com/

• National Poetry Month
  http://www.poets.org/

• To subscribe to Poem-A-Day Email
  http://www.poets.org/poemADay.php

• Poetry Teachers
  http://www.poetryteachers.com

• Poetry4Kids
  http://www.poetry4kids.com/

• Magnetic Poetry
  http://www.magpo.com/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm

• Shel Silverstein.com
  http://www.shelsilverstein.com/

• Jack Prelutsky.com
  http://www.jackprelutsky.com/

Is it short attention span? A lack of time? I just realized that my only blog entries in the past two or three months have been read aloud lists. In that time I have started using Twitter which has the interesting limitation of only letting you use 140 characters per “tweet.” You can click on the “Twitter” link above to take a look. If you are a Twitter user, you can also click on the link to follow me from the Twitter page. Let me know what you think.

Kindergarten

• Bang. When Sophie Gets Angry– Really, Really Angry…
• Vail. Sometimes I’m Bombaloo.

First Grade

• James. Baby Brains and Robomom.
• Stewart. No Babysitters Allowed.

Second Grade

• Yolen. Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy.

Here are three great links to get you started using Twitter with your students, parents, and colleagues.

• Introduction to Twitter
  http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec570/spring09/activities/opd/twitter.htm
  –a kind of webquest for starting Twitter created by SDSU prof. Bernie Dodge.
• Twitter4teachers
  http://twitter4teachers.pbwiki.com/
  –a pb wiki listing of teachers who use twitter.
• Twitter for Teachers
  http://twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/
  –a creative commons ebook in the process of being created by and for teachers.

Kindergarten

• Bateman. The Ring of Truth.

First Grade

• Krensky. Too Many Leprechauns.

Second Grade

• Pennypacker. Clementine.

Kindergarten

• Mayer. There’s an Alligator Under My Bed.
• Mayer. There’s Something in My Attic.
• Rosoff. Jumpy Jack & Googily.

First Grade–the Seuss Award Winners!

• Willems. Are You Ready to Play Outside?
• Davis. Stinky.
• Grant. Chicken Said “Cluck!”
• Campbell. Wolfsnail.
• Seeger. One Boy.

Second Grade

• Pennypacker. Clementine.

Kindergarten.

• Seuss. And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street.

First Grade

• Krull. The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss.

Second Grade

• Pennypacker. Clementine.

Kindergarten/First Grade

• Wheeler. Jazz Baby.
• Weinstein. When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat.

We also watched Louis Armstrong on YouTube. …..and everyone probably knows this example of scat singing from The Jungle Book.

Second Grade

• Pennypacker. Clementine.

Third Grade

• Johnson. Just Like Josh Gibson.
• Nelson. We Are the Ship. The Story of Negro League Baseball.

Kindergarten

• Bynum. Otis.
• Bynum. Pig Enough.

First Grade

• Hatkoff. Owen & Mzee: the Language of Friendship. (599.63)

Second Grade

• Pennypacker. Clementine.

Kindergarten

• Bonning. Snog the Frog.
• Bunting. The Valentine Bears.

First Grade

• Bonning. Snog the Frog.
• Spinelli. Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch.

Second Grade

• Pennypacker. Clementine.