Welcome to Writing with Auntie Laurel!
This interactive video series features poetry writing lessons, prompts, and art projects
to get children (Grades 3-5) writing poetry from home.
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Craft 1: Fruit Art Make your fruit into little people, complete with a poetry scroll! Craft 2: Pop-up Poetry Card Show your love with a pop-up poetry card! Craft 3: Poetry Circles It's the Circle of Life...with poetry! Craft 4: Point of View PLAYground Make a mini-playground to explore point of view! Day 6: Oceans of Emotions Use personification to bring your emotions to life! |
Day 1: Sensory Details Play with your food as you create a fun, fruity poem! Day 2: Similes What is a simile, anyway? Find out today! Day 3: Metaphor The figurative language journey continues with... metaphor! Day 4: Point of View How do you tell a story? Using point of view! Day 5: A Sense of Home Bored at home? See home in a new way through poetry! Day 7: Love Letter to the Earth It's Earth Day everyday in this lesson! |
Series Description:
In order to provide support to teachers and students during this extended break from school due to the COVID-19 virus, Laurel has developed an online poetry series, “Writing With Auntie Laurel.” Based on her 11 years of experience as a teaching artist and extensive research, Laurel has developed curriculum specifically tailored to online learning. With the guidance of video lessons, students will learn about key poetry concepts and write their own poems.
Each lesson is paired with a video detailing a hands-on art project that relates to the learning goal of the lesson. For example, students will learn about similes and then make a card for a family member featuring the simile-poem that they wrote.
Lesson topics include: sensory details, figurative language, point of view, and character development. Scroll down for a library of online learning resources appropriate for children.
In order to provide support to teachers and students during this extended break from school due to the COVID-19 virus, Laurel has developed an online poetry series, “Writing With Auntie Laurel.” Based on her 11 years of experience as a teaching artist and extensive research, Laurel has developed curriculum specifically tailored to online learning. With the guidance of video lessons, students will learn about key poetry concepts and write their own poems.
Each lesson is paired with a video detailing a hands-on art project that relates to the learning goal of the lesson. For example, students will learn about similes and then make a card for a family member featuring the simile-poem that they wrote.
Lesson topics include: sensory details, figurative language, point of view, and character development. Scroll down for a library of online learning resources appropriate for children.
Letters from Students
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Dear Auntie Laurel
Hello, thank you for making those awesome videos of yours. It's been fun watching them. It's really inspiring to watch them and to create them so you know your super star in my eyes helping everyone out. Oh and by the way I need to tell you that my favorite video of yours is the personification one because I've been feeling a lot of emotions because of quarantine. sincerely micah |
Dear Auntie Laurel,
Thank you for your videos. They are so creative and inspiring. I really enjoy watching them and doing art projects. I love writing poetry. I can express my feelings. I have a sketch book that I draw in on my free time. Your projects help me be creative. Sincerely, Ethan |
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dear Auntie laurel,
thank you for making these amazing videos for us to watch. your poetry makes everything around feel nice and peaceful and calm. Thank you for taking the time in your day to make these videos for us and poetry means a lot to us and i just wanted to say thank you. your videos really help me and push me to do more poetry. sincerely, Miley |
Dear Auntie Laurel,
Mahalo for all the videos that you made for students in this pandemic you always make learning fun with your smile. I hope you are doing well in this Covid -19. One of my favorite videos is the five senses videos, two of them actually. Thank you for the help you’ve been giving us here at home and in the hawaii art museum. Your house is gorgeous by the way. Much love from the Voyager Ohana. Much Love, Hailey Kehaulani |
Auntie Laurel in the News
Creative Writing Library
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The Five Senses Sensory Details Rap How to Write Descriptively The Wide Open World of Adjectives Similes and Metaphors Song What are Metaphors? Narrator's Point of View What Makes a Poem, a Poem? |
