POETRY FRIDAY- A FUNERAL IN THE BATHROOM- KALLI DAKOS

As a teacher, I have long marveled at bathroom issues. Schools that make teachers take group bathroom breaks. Schools that don't allow group bathroom breaks. Kids that want to go every five minutes. Kids that wait until the last possible second and then have to run all the way down the hall. Kids that ask to of and don't come back until you send a search party. Kids that can make their own private water parks in five minutes or less. Kids that create art galleries or anatomy lessons on bathroom walls with a single half-broken red crayon…

And now children's poet Kalli Dakos has written an entire book of bathroom poems!

Some of the poems are silly…

"Meet Me in the Bathroom"

Meet me in the bathroom,

right at two o'clock.

You leave your class,

I'll leave mine

we'll have a chance to talk…"

"Trapped in the Bathroom"

I'm trapped in the bathroom.

What rotten luck!

Right at recess,

with a door that is stuck…"

"The Bathroom Dance"

We

do

the

wiggle

jiggle

do-si-doh……

cross our legs,

hold our pants,

we all know,

the Bathroom Dance!"

Some of the poems are serious…

"Laughing Machine"

Jarrod says my nose

is big enough for two heads,

so I go to the bathroom

to check…"

"There Should be a Place Kids Can Go"

There should be a place

kids can go

when life has dealt

another blow…"

I think these are all poems that kids are going to love! Can't wait to share them with my fourth graders at our Poetry Friday meeting this morning.

Poetry Friday is at Anastasia Suen's Picture Book of the Day.