Children’s Poet Ted Scheu visits KLSD Second Grade

KATONAH, NY — Second graders at Meadow Pond Elementary School and Katonah Elementary School participated in day-long writer's workshops with Ted Scheu, a well-known children’s poet, this week.

The workshops were part of a Katonah-Lewisboro School District’s commitment to helping young people develop purposeful, lifelong literacy, according to a district spokeswoman.

Scheu met with second graders at Increase Miller Elementary School in late 2016.

Scheu is a children's poet from Middlebury, VT, who visits over 60 schools around the world each year helping kids find their own poetic voices. His poems are published in over a dozen anthologies as well as his own collections “I Froze My Mother,” “I Tickled My Teachers,” “I Threw My Brother Out,” and “Now I Know My ZBCs.”

“Who knows the shortest poem ever written?” Scheu asked the second graders of Increase Miller Elementary School. “It's a little poem with a long title: 'How to Eat an Ice Cream Cone in August.' "

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This is why kids love Scheu, school officials said, because he’s fun, and his childhood stories, song parodies, and poems about ketchup, losing a tooth and even looking in the mirror show elementary school students that poetry is really just word play.

Photo credit: Katonah-Lewisboro School District.