(NS) Dana's Reviews > What a Day It Was at School!

This book contains 17 poems about joys and dilemmas that occur during the school day. The Poems discus the ups and downs of completing homework and assignments, overloaded backpacks, the sweet sounds of music class, invigorating author visits, gym partners, and cafeteria food fights. Lively and fun, with perfect examples and loads of interesting word choices, these poems are wonderful for class read-alouds. The picture create an engaging school environment with adorable colorful cartoon animal characters that match the author’s silly and energetic verses. This school themed collection is perfect to incorporate into an elementary classroom.

I don’t know how I have not had this poem book in my first grade classroom for the past 4 years! I absolutely loved every page of it. The poems are true to the minds of students, silly, and filled with energy. The reader is guaranteed to come back wanting to read or hear more. The poems cover the perfect topics that are familiar to all students, such as heavy backpacks, teacher’s pets, field trips, homework frustrations, and much more. It also made me smile thinking back to my childhood year and the same feelings towards the adventures of the school day. I especially like the poems about the truthful ups and downs that life of a student brings. I think this is a fantastic book to read to students when introducing new subjects, since a variety of them are written about in this book. Of course these subjects are written in a humorous way and includes illustrations that show accurate feelings, expressions, and of course are silly. I am not one to normally love reading poetry, however, this book left me laughing and excited to read more!