"Fruity Poetry"

In Dr. Dawnie's post "leave your bananas at home," he discusses poetry. I think this is an important point to make considering the title may be misleading if you have not read the post. Anyway, he describes an activity that he has been using for a while that requires the students to bring in a fruit (although he does not allow bananas, they make him shiver.) During this activity, the students are asked to use all of their senses to examine the fruit. They can eat it, smell it, ect. Then they are required to write a poem based on their findings. I think this is probably effective for many reasons, the most important being: KIDS LOVE FOOD. That will never change. If you make eating some type of food part of an activity in class, the kids are going to love it. It also makes them think abstractly about a very ordinary item. It is a good way to get them thinking outside of the box. I think any type of food would work for this activity. Of course, you would want to encourage kids to eat healthy but a few skittles never hurt anyone.


You can read this article here.