We also discussed about how every poem had a title followed by the poet's name. Then I asked children if they would like to come up with their own poems. Rishi got excited about the idea of signing his own name as the poet and said he wanted to attempt one. And he rattled off so spontaneously that I had to rush for a pen to jot down his ideas. He chose to make a poem about his favourite colour, blue. His poem went like this:
"Blue, blue,
How you got into the sky?"
He paused and when I asked if he wanted to add few more lines, he said,
"You are so beautiful,
You are so cute."
And then he came up with a title, "Blue ". After jotting down his poem on the board, I asked him, what would be the poet's name and he said with an air of pride, "Rishi Mukherjee!"
Contributed by Jennifer Christy, Learning Facilitator at Sparkling Mindz Global.