Valentine's Day Poetry

The first grade poetry section falls right around Valentine's Day so I thought it would be fun to combine the two. The first day we read poetry from the language arts book. The next day I introduced the idea of creating shape poems. The students favorite poem from the text book was about ducks, so as a class we created a duck shape poem. Later that day, in ELA centers the students were asked to create a heart shape poem. The picture below shows their work and also acted as a great decoration for our Valentine's Day party!