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Mosquito Bites!

I thought this poem was super cute. It‘s an easy way to help teach young readers about mosquito bites and what causes them to itch.

Mosquito Bites!

This short poem is a cute way of explaining why mosquito bites itch like they do. The rhyming lines describe the process from bite to bump to itch in a fun and flowing way.

working while the world is sleeping, tugging, lugging, running, creeping

cute book that teaches about different kinds of bugs in the form of poetry. Easy read for young kids.

“Working while the world is sleeping, tugging, logging, running, creeping“

cute book that teaches about different kinds of bugs in the form of poetry. Easy to read and makes learning fun.

Working while the world is sleeping, tugging, lugging, running, creeping.

Cute book that teaches about different kinds of bugs in the form of poetry. Easy to read and makes learning fun!

“Working while the world is sleeping, tugging, lugging, running and creeping”

Cute book that teaches about the kinds of poetry and bugs! Very easy to read.

“Working while the world is sleeping, tugging, lugging, running, creeping”

Cute book that teaches about different kinds of bugs in the form of poetry. Easy to read and makes learning fun!

I love the colors and the possibility to read it to younger students would be great.

I like this book. It is a collection of poems of bugs written from their perspective. I like how the pages are colorful and playful and shorter poems easy for younger students to understand. I like how there are facts on each page.

Everyone loves the ladybug. She‘s cute and small and shy, a bright, delightful, friendly sort and pleasing to the eye

Published in 2017, was a super cute read regarding insects. This book has a different poem for each insect and was very informative yet fun to read

“Cricket in the Thicket” written by Carol Murray and illustrated by Melissa Sweet is a great poetry book to teach about bugs and nature, while also teaching about poetry and the cadence and fluency you need to speak it out loud. You could read this book as a guided reading focusing on different things each time you read. Such as specifically the insects one day, the words and rhyming the next and so on.
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something I really enjoyed was the table of contents. Instead of just listing out where the poems are for each bug, they also added a picture of that bug. I think for students who are still struggling to read, this is a nice guide for them.

Poetry- Published in 2017
I think this is a very interesting book! I love that there are lots of different poems all on different bugs. This would be a great book to introduce poetry to students because I believe younger kids are into bugs so if you connect something they‘re interested in to learning, they might retain the information more.

Great poems to read to a science class when they are learning about bugs and insects. Also love the little facts in the bottom corner of the pages.

Poems that familiarize children about bugs. From bugs that children see daily to bugs they may not have even known about. These poems also describe through the illustrations and words the environments these bugs live in. Genre: Poetry; Published: 2017; Illustrator: Melissa Sweet

I wanted to quote this whole poem because it uses humor and keeps it lighthearted.

The beautiful and colorful illustrations work wonderfully with Carol Murray‘s whimsical verses.

This book was published in 2017. It is full over playful poems that highlight facts about insects all over the world. Many of the poems use different poetic aspects like free verse, rhyme, alliteration, etc. It is full of fun facts that are age appropriate for younger children.

“I eat my web for supper”
This short cute poem is fun and informational because I had no idea spiders eat their webs!

I love these bright beautiful illustrations that bring out the true meaning in the words!!

Published in 2017 and illustrated by Melissa Sweet, this poetry book uses repetition and the use of alliteration to bring the words alive! It is appropriate for children especially because it‘s a book about bugs and children love learning about bugs! The onomatopoeias also attract young readers!

“I am not loved, not loved at all.
I‘m not like any other.
But surely someone cares for me.
I think it is my MOTHER.”

Each poem included drawings of the insect along with little facts which was really cool.

This poetry book contains many different mini poems about insects. The book was written by Carol Murray. About every poem rhymes. Some even use onomatopoeia! I would use this in my classroom because it helps children learn and read cute, simple, interesting poems.

A charming little insect, bringing polka-dotted fun. So should you want to hug a bug, this lady is the one.

This is an adorable poetry book and I would for sure read it to my class one day.

Cricket in the thicket by carol Murray had many different poems in the book. This is a poetry book which contains intersect poems. The poem I chose to read was Ladybug hug. This is a poem of a ladybug which is charming and cute. All the poems are rhymes and have repetition in the lines.

She left a treasure on a tree, as thin as paper, plain to see. We showed it to another kid, wondering what Cicada did.

My favorite thing about this book is definitely the pictures. Even if kids don‘t totally understand what the poem is saying, I think the illustrations help get them there.

Published in 2017 by Henry Holt. The illustrations in this book make nature so easy to understand by little kids. This would be such a good book to introduce poetry with & get in some science. It even has little facts to go along with each subject.