One of my favorite poets to use with Kinder students is Langston Hughes. He has a poem:
When the shoe strings break
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry-
That's the blues.
When you go to buy a candy bar
And you've lost the dime you had-
Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere-
That's the blues, too, and bad!
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry-
That's the blues.
When you go to buy a candy bar
And you've lost the dime you had-
Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere-
That's the blues, too, and bad!
We read it together. We discuss it. We listen to famous Blues greats. Then I ask the students to write what a Kindergarten Blues song would say. What gives you the Blues ( a lot of them dealt with friendship drama :)
