Here’s to April showers and National Poetry Month. Scholastic has some fun links to help kick off the celebrations; “use these resources throughout the school year to practice language and literacy skills for all grade levels.”
Community Poems (PreK–2)
Creepy Crawlies (K–2)
The Farm Octopus (K–2)
Poems About Me (PreK–2)
Get Ready to Rhyme (K–5)
The Name Game (PreK–1)
Poems About Me (PreK–2)
Writing an Acrostic (3–8)
Noun Poems (K–5)
Small Poems (1–5)
Personification (K–5)
Chants and Street Rhymes (3–8)
Math Poetry Puzzles (K–4)
The chants and street rhymes are especially interesting to read and reflect on from a security perspective. Imagine using the following rhyme as your passphrase:
Bake a pudding, bake a pie,
Did you ever tell a lie
Or if you are restricted to using passwords, perhaps you could create this version of the same:
baPBa314Du
…if you know what I mean. Here’s another good one to play around with:
Ooo-ah, wanna piece of pie,
Pie too sweet, wanna piece of meat,
Meat too tough, wanna ride a bus,
Bus was full, wanna ride a bull,
Bull too fat, want your money back,
Money too green, wanna jelly bean,
Jelly bean not cooked, wanna read a book,
Book not read, wanna go to bed.
So close your eyes and count to ten,
And if you miss, start all over again.