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5 Delicious Ways to Celebrate Poet in a Cupcake Day!

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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Today is Poet in a Cupcake Day, a delicious way to cap off the first week of National Poetry Month and the last day of Take Your Poet to School Week.

Filed Under: National Poetry Month, Take Your Poet to School Week

It’s Take Your Poet to School Week!

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Take your Poet to School Week girl on swing

Join teachers, students and librarians around the globe to kick off National Poetry Month with the fun and delight of Take Your Poet to School Week, including our favorites, Talk Like a Poet Day and Poet in a Cupcake Day!

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Top 10 Totally Fun Teaching Ideas for National Poetry Month

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Take Your Poet to School Hanging Mobile

You’ve got the whole month of April to celebrate National Poetry Month. We’ve got the cut ‘n color poets and top 10 teaching ideas—for you to make it the most fun and informative thirty days ever!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

5 Sumptuously Fun Ways to Spend Poet in a Cupcake Day!

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

It’s Poet in a Cupcake Day! Check out our fun ideas for celebrating, with real cupcakes or a fun printable. Both go wonderfully with our cut n’ color poets.

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Take Your Poet to School Week: Eugene Field, the Poet of Childhood

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Girl with puppy Eugene Field

Eugene Field is perhaps the perfect poet for Take Your Poet to School Week. It was the schoolchildren of St. Louis who saved his house from demolition.

Filed Under: article, children, Children's Poetry, Children's Stories, Funny Poems, Poems, Poetry Classroom, poetry humor, Poets, Take Your Poet to School Week

Bring in the Cupcakes! It’s Take Your Poet to School Week

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Poet in a Cupcake Day Cover

It’s Take Your Poet to School Week! Celebrate with themes such as Talk Like a Poet Day, Poet in Your Math Book Day, and of course, sweetest of all, our new public day: Poet in a Cupcake Day!

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Shel Silverstein

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Shel Silverstein Take Your Poet to School

Celebrate Take Your Poet to School Week “where the sidewalk ends.” Shel Silverstein makes his debut for next week’s big event.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Shel Silverstein, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Mother Goose

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Mother Goose Take Your Poet to School Week Cover

Even the mythical poets are getting in on the fun of Take Your Poet to School Week. Today, Mother Goose hops on a stick and makes her debut.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, Mother Goose, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Ogden Nash

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Cover Ogden Nash

Our preparation for this year’s Take Your Poet to School Week continues with the light and whimsical poems of Ogden Nash.

Filed Under: Blog, Ogden Nash, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School: Robert Louis Stevenson

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Robert Louis Stevenson cover

Don’t let the folks with briefcases have all the fun. Join in the brand new celebration of Take Your Poet to School Week with our fun cut ‘n color poets on a stick.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

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