{"id":497,"date":"2012-05-07T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/?p=497"},"modified":"2012-05-07T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:35:01","slug":"april-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/2012\/05\/07\/april-poetry-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April was Poetry Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/files\/2012\/05\/poetrymonth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-516\" title=\"poetrymonth\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/files\/2012\/05\/poetrymonth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/files\/2012\/05\/poetrymonth.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/files\/2012\/05\/poetrymonth-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>In April, we celebrated Poetry Month in the library. Students in the Primary classes read and shared poems from a wide range of poetry books. There are some wonderful poets whose poetry resonate with the kids, Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, and of course, Dennis Lee, a Canadian. To mark the end of hockey season for many Canucks fans and the beginning of baseball season, Intermediate classes learned about <em>Casey at the Bat<\/em> by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. The students heard the poem first and then saw a 1946 Disney cartoon on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, we celebrated Poetry Month in the library. Students in the Primary classes read and shared poems from a wide range of poetry books. There are some wonderful poets whose poetry resonate with the kids, Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/2012\/05\/07\/april-poetry-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  April was Poetry Month!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}