The Best Part About Me - Poetry Writing and Self Image Boost

The Best Part About Me is one of the activities that caught my eyes in one of the classrooms I've substituted in. It was a 4th grade classroom and the teacher had put on a wall poems written by students about the favorite part of their bodies. The poems were beautifully written and were accompanied by artsy black and white pictures of the body parts in discussion. I liked the idea a lot at that time and I even took a few pictures.
Then, only a few days later I was surprised to find this article on the Scholastic website, which gives details about the way in which a teacher implemented it in her classroom. Apparently there is even a book that served as an inspiration for this project: The Best Part of Me, by Wendy Ewald. According to the Scholastic teacher who wrote the article, however, a multitude of other books that promote self esteem could be used to work on this project. I find it inspiring and I would love to implement it with my own classroom. Some day...