Today for Summer Learning Journey I remembered that I forgot to do the step it up for one of the poetry slams. I made up my own words on the template and made a haiku out of them.
Did you know that Magnetic Poetry was invented by Dave Kapell, who was a songwriter? He wrote words on pieces of paper and rearranged them, hoping to use it as a starting point for lyrics. To keep the arrangements of words from being accidentally disturbed, he thought to glue the paper to magnets.
I enjoyed making the poems because I could write whatever I want. It was also hard to make the poems because I only had certain words to use. I made sure that I had a bit of a plan before making them so it was much easier knowing which words are where.
Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my magnetic poem step it up:
Then I got my Mum to make one using my words. So here is the one my Mum made: