Digital Paint Chip Poetry

We are in our last week of April and I am wrapping up a four part series of online poetry activities for National Poetry Month.

This last idea, paint trip poetry, came from Mrs. Hall's Fabulous in Fourth blog.

From Mrs. Hall's Blog

I really liked the idea and made it digital using Google Slides.

I created a template that teachers could use and modify if they wish. Once you click on the link you will be asked to make a copy. Once you have copy in your drive you can adjust as needed for your students. This activity is appropriate for grades 3 through 5.

We use Google Classroom in our district so it would be easy to assign it. Below is how the assignment might look in Google Classroom:

The finished poem "Grey Is" (above) was one I created and used as a sample for students in the template.

Definitely check out Mrs. Hall's blog to see other samples of student work. She had a linked worksheet for student brainstorming and I copied those instructions to the left hand side of each slide in the template. I see where the worksheet was focused on metaphors but the student samples she posted had predominately similes so that might be something you may or may not want to change.

If I were doing this with a class I would copy and paste the finished poems into one master slide show and share with students and allow them to comment on the side. The master slideshow could also be shared with parents and on classroom/school Facebook pages as well.

If you do this activity I would love to hear/see how it went. Feel free to post in the comments or tag me on Twitter @atechcoachlife.

UPDATE: One of our third grade teachers tried it with her class and they did such a good job. You check out all of their poems HERE. Below are two of my favorites:

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