I would have loved to have seen your Poetry Cafe. What a delightful celebration of language! (Did you take pictures?) Wonderful energetic little boys LOVE singing, signing, and dramatizing songs, poems, and rhymes as a whole group just as much as girls do! If you start with the nursery rhymes, I encourage you to have children practice being the audience and the performers. Consider providing the option of pairs of children participating in a “Friday Afternoon Poetry Share” where children will have memorized and will recite and perform a favorite small poem or rhyme of some delight. You may consider spending time in the beginning of the year teaching children the difference between scribbling versus quality coloring and drawing. Every group is so different! Let us know how it goes. This makes me excited to present my next Online Seminar, “I Can Read” Anthology Notebooks for Fluency and Delight. Thanks for sharing. Nellie
