Tuesday, April 29, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 29

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:

1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.

2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.


Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR
April 28 - My Treasure Stone

And now for today!


Students - Today's poem is perhaps less the story of a song and more of a truth combined with a song. I decided to play with the words of "You Are My Sunshine," and if you know the song, you will be able to find some of the lines and images in the verse. I've never done anything just like this before, and it was quite interesting to tuck those songbits in between the storylines.

Thank you for joining me on this twenty-ninth day of HELLO MY NAME IS...

Students - To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!

xo,

Amy

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Monday, April 28, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 28

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:

1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.

2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.


Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR

And now for today!

Students - Once again, I am unable to explain why characters do what they do from day to day on this project, but it does feel as if they are doing these things on their own. Lou, in her cloak made from her Pop-Pop's old coat, thinks of him often. Many of us have objects that remind us of loved ones who are far away or who have passed away. And even though there is a lot of fun with dog goodness and pie goodness and kickball goodness, loss and missing is real too.

This two stanza poem begins in the present and then goes to the past and then returns to the present. You might wish to play with time in this way or in a way of your owh choosing.

Thank you for joining me on this twenty-eighth day of HELLO MY NAME IS...

Students - To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!

xo,

Amy

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 27

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:

1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.

2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.


Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR

And now for today!

Students - Today's poem is really about SOMETHING NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT FRANK. And maybe it's just Lou who doesn't know that her dog's father is the original Big Bad Wolf...I don't know for sure. But it is interesting for me to think about. Frank had a childhood, and now he has his own life as a big grown-up wolf dog playing kickball and writing poetry. We decide who we become in life, so much because of the love and understanding of others. We can always change, no matter our circumstances.

This relationship was a surprise to me - I believe that I woke in the night and realized that these two were related. 

Remember - while we control some of our writing, there is something good about leaving a window open for surprise. Allow your own thoughts to surprise you!

Thank you for joining me on this twenty-seventh day of HELLO MY NAME IS...

Students - To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!

xo,

Amy

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 26

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:

1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.

2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.


Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR

And now for today!


Students - I am not sure why, but a weekly kickball game feels like something this forest community of neighbors needs. Maybe we all need it! Today's poem begins with rhyming and then stops rhyming. Do remember that when you write, you can borrow patterns and rhythms and rhyme schemes, you can make up your own, and you can can mix things up as you wish.

You likely noticed that the final stanza's line breaks stream down the page...just like raindrops or tears. We can match line breaks to our poem lines' meanings, and this will help our readers understand our words even better.

Thank you for joining me on this twenty-sixth day of HELLO MY NAME IS...

To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!

xo,

Amy

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Friday, April 25, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 25

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:

1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.

2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.


Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR

And now for today!


Students - Today's poem is about something I have wondered about many times - What do animals dream about? What was my pet's life before we knew each other? I even wrote a whole picture book about this idea, the idea of animal dreams. This book is called DREAMING OF YOU. So, I suppose only makes sense that the Lou/LRRH in me would wonder this same thing, especially about Frank who did an evil deed. What was Frank-the-wolf's life before his calm dog life now?

Today's poem is from Lou's point of view, but I also wanted to make it a standalone poem. This means that while we know it's from LRRH's perspective because we know this month's theme here, another person could read this poem not knowing this and imagine it is from any dog owner's perspective. The poem can stand alone, without the other poems from this month.

Writing from wonder is always interesting. What are some of your life questions? You might choose to explore one in the world of a poem. As I did, you might even decide to include a direct questions in your poem, maybe even in the very last line as you see above. Ending a poem with a question gives readers something to think about.

Thank you for joining me on this twenty-fifth day of HELLO MY NAME IS...

Thank you very much to Heidi for hosting this week's Poetry Friday roundup over at my juicy little universe with a poem by a student and the Progressive Poem too. While you're at her place, don' tmiss the information she shares about her WHISPERshout writing workshops and poetry magazine written by young writers. Each Friday, all are invited to share poems, poem books, poetry ideas, and friendship in this open and welcoming poetry community.

Students - To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!

xo,

Amy

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 24

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:

1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.

2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.


Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR

And now for today!

Students - Today's poem is a list poem. Each line lists a gift that one might choose to offer the world. And at the end, a reflection. A list poem is an easy kind of poem to write. You just write a list (it need not rhyme) and then, as many say, make a twist at the end, a twist that breaks your list's pattern.

In this list, Lou reflects on the gifts her community gives. Who gives which gift? When we pay attention to the lives and examples of others, this often makes us ask questions about our own lives. 

Thank you for joining me on this twenty-fourth day of HELLO MY NAME IS and for offering the gift of your presence...

To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!

xo,

Amy

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 23

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:

1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.

2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.


Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR

And now for today!


Students - Today's poem is a triolet, a form I really like writing in. oday I wrote this one by looking at another triolet I wrote a while ago and copied the form just from looking at the lines. What do you notice about this form just by comparing the two triolets below?
You can read more about the triolet form in my February 27, 2025 post if you wish to learn the specifics.

Well, we are winding up the last days of National Poetry Month, and to give myself more choices, I added a few possibilites for poem topics. Feel free to add these to your grid and mind and heart if you wish:

  • A Big Feeling
  • A Wish
  • A Word I Like
  • A Wonder
  • Just a Thought
  • Wild Card!/Anything!/Blank Card of Choice
Here you can see where I have been keeping track of this month's poems. This organizational sheet has been helping me all month, and it is also giving me some ideas about planning future projects. It's messy, just like I am.

Amy LV's National Poetry Month Planning Sheet
Photo by Amy LV

Today I am traveling for eight days of school visits away from home. Thank you in advance to the teachers, students, parents, and administrators at Seely Place Elementary and Greenville Elementary in Scarsdale, NY and those of GW Miller Elementary in Nanuet, NY. I so look forward to my time with your writers.

To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!

xo,

Amy

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