Reading Poetry is Sooooo... Delicious

This years DoD Summer Reading Program is a great opportunity to do lots of Poetry and Pizza programs. It is an easy program that incorporates two of the three values put forth in the teen slogan- eating and reading! On April 12 we had Slam poet Jonathan B Tucker out to do a reading. His energy was amazing! He had audience members from 7 to 70 fully engaged in his poems. We are inviting him back out this summer to do another reading. We will be piggybacking a workshop off of that reading for middle and high school students to learn how to "spit".

This leaves move.. For this we will have a special Story Time in which we use poems to encourage the kids to move. Simply select a few kids poems that talk about wiggling, running- any kind of movement. As you read the poems have the kids act them out. This encourages creative play and gets kids involved in poetry in a fun way.