This card should act as a model of how they can physically write their own poem onto their own shapes. Read the poem aloud again, and invite students to chime in on the first and last lines of the poem (I am the moon, Queen of Night ), echoing the title of the poem). Laminated pictures of moon cake and the Moon; Moon or star shape poem. It was the lovely moon's, for when He raised his dreamy head, Her surge of silver filled the pane And streamed across his bed. The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse, The howling dog by the door of the house, The bat that lies in bed at noon, All love to be out by the light of the moon. 2. One night as Dick lay fast asleep, Into his drowsy eyes A great still light began to creep From out the silent skies. :POEMS ABOUT SPACE, and Seymour Simon’s STAR WALK--have been unceremoniously sucked into the out-of-print black hole of the literary universe. The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Cut out a crescent moon shape and a star shape out of card pre-lesson and write the poem below or make up your own and write it onto the shape. FULL MOON. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind. Then read the poem aloud and make a list of all the moon-specific language they can identify (e.g., night, light, ancient, orb, wax, wane, tides, ebb, flow, Milky Way). We also study poetry.
COMETS, STARS, THE MOON, AND MARS is blasting off the publishing launch pad at an opportune time. "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" by Walt Whitman Whitman's poem begins: "When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, I think this idea will appeal to young poetry writers who are challenged to come up with poems that relate to their study of the moon. It is impossible not to inspired by the stars and the vast wonders of space. It adds a cheerful spin on the moon in between all of the serious waxings and wanings of the moon that seven year olds are … The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall, On streets and fields and harbour quays, And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. The best children’s poetry books about astronomy--Myra Cohn Livington’s SPACE SONGS, Lee Bennett Hopkins’s BLAST OFF! Here is a curated collection of interest poems about stars, space and the universe itself.