The results are in from round 4 of our poetry tournament, and the winner was… Jabberwocky! *   So we now have our Final Four poems to decide which will be the champion of the whole tournament. The final poems are: Monster Mothers read by Piper, Mosquito read by Wynn, Jabberwocky read by Sean, and [...]

The polls have closed for Round 3 of our poetry tournament, and the winner is Smart! We had a total of 78 votes and 38 of them (49%) were for Smart. Weather was in second place with 21 votes. * Now it’s time for round 4 to see which is the final poem to join [...]

The polls have closed for Round 2 of our poetry tournament, and the winner is Mosquito! We had a total of 86 votes and 47 of them (55%) were for Mosquito.  * Now it’s time for round 3 to see which is the next poem to join Monster Mothers and Mosquito in the final four!  [...]

The results are in from Round 1 of our poetry tournament, and the winner is: Monster Mothers! Thank you to everyone that voted. We had a total of 56 votes and 32 of them were for Monster Mothers. During Poetry Madness we have been working on reading with fluency. Poetry is a great way to practice [...]

Every March in the USA there is a college basketball tournament. It has the nickname “March Madness” because it is always action-packed and full of excitement. We have our own version of March Madness, but instead of basketball teams, we have a tournament of poems! We call it “Poetry Madness.”   This is how it [...]

Our Poetry Madness tournament is over and we have our champion for 2012… The mighty Jabberwocky! In the final four competition last week, Jabberwocky got 70 votes and Smart came in second with 44 votes. This makes Jabberwocky the two-time defending champion because it won last year’s competition as well. However, in our in-class tournament, [...]

The results are in from round 4 of our poetry tournament, and the winner was… Smart by Shel Silverstein! It was a very close contest – Smart beat Weather by only 3 votes. So we now have our Final Four poems to decide which will be the champion of the whole tournament. The final poems [...]

The results are in from Round 3 of our March Madness poetry tournament and the winner is… Jabberwocky! It was our closest contest yet, Jabberwocky barely beat Mosquito by a score of 22 to 18.  We have one more round to go until the final four next week. This week’s poems are read by; Maura [...]

The results are in from Round 2 of our poetry tournament and the winner is… The Land of Bumbley Boo! We had 71 votes and Bumbley Boo got 27 of them, while If Only was a close second with 21 votes. Poetry Madness 2012 This week we have four new poems to listen to and [...]

The results are in from Round 1 of our poetry tournament, and the winner is: Monster Mothers! Thank you to everyone that voted. We had a total of 50 votes and 34 of them were for Monster Mothers. During Poetry Madness we have been working on reading with fluency. Poetry is a great way to practice [...]