2014 Children’s Poetry Celebration & Contest PLUS Cinquain Poems!!
April is National Poetry Month! In celebration we’ll be sharing about CINQUAIN POEMS today, but first we want to tell you about the awesome drawing and poetry contest created by Preschool Powol Packets!
During April, co-hosting blogs (like ours!) will post about poetry. Comment on these posts to be entered in a DRAWING for a POETRY PRIZE. An additional entry is available for following host blogs on Facebook (for instance, if you follow Brave Writer, comment here so the entry can be counted).
There’s also a cool Poetry Contest for kids! Children can enter one or two original poems (30 lines or shorter) in one of the following age categories: 4-6, 7-9, 10-12. Entries will be accepted any time during the month of April via a form at Preschool Powol Packets. Poems will be judged on creativity, originality, style, and language. Judging may be subjective and all decisions are final. This year’s contest will be judged by the lovely Becky at This Reading Mama. More info at Preschool Powol Packets.
taught by our very own Susanne Barrett.
A Cinquain is a five-lined poem (hence the name!) and is a favorite poetic form for many kids because, as one of our students pointed out, “they are easy and fun to write and they don’t require a whole lot of words!” They also reinforce some basic grammatical parts of speech.
Sometimes each line is centered to create a diamond or tree-like shape.
Students may capitalize all the words, none of the words, the first words of each line, or just certain words. And each poem may be capitalized differently, depending on its subject matter, diction (word choice), etc. Just see which way feels the best to you for each poem. Also, slight variations of syllables are okay.
If your kids write a Cinquain poem, they can submit it to the 2014 Children’s Poetry Celebration & Contest.
Prize details are at Preschool Powol Packets (Psst! Brave Writer has donated our Arrow Poetry Guide).
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I think we’ll use the cinquain poetry format today as a way to review our language arts skills. I love writing cinquain poems. I can’t wait to see what topic my daughter chooses to write about today! Great post with example of how to differentiate for older learners.
I love how accessible you make cinquains! We’ll be writing some this afternoon! Thanks for a fabulous post!!
Did not know what a Cinquain poem was until today. Learn something everyday. It so happens we are doing the Arrow Poetry this month. Perfect timing.
What a great syle for young kids! We just wrote haikus today which slso you syllables.
This is a great idea. I can’t wait to tell my kids about the poetry contest tomorrow at our poetry tea time. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve never heard of cinquain poems before. maybe we’ll try them at our next poetry club. thanks!