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A Purple Life: Deconstruction @ Moos Elementary

This week the 3rd Graders took a look at Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, by Wallace Stevens. We inspected an actual pineapple to try and figure out how Stevens got such wild images out […]

This book sounds like the ocean

This week at Avondale Logandale Elementary, the fourth grade students read about the most magical library… ever! We imagined all sorts of crazy books, and here are some of the fantastic results! Ms. Lozada […]

This Book is a Wing: Wild Libraries at Moos Elementary

This week the students read about the most magical library… ever! We imagined all sorts of crazy books, and here are some of the fantastic results! Ms. Sweeney 3rd Grade Library Crystal V. This […]

Strange books at Darwin Elementary

This week the second grade student poets at Darwin read about the most magical library… ever! We imagined all sorts of crazy books, and here are some of the fantastic results! Mr. Rence 2nd […]

Do you love nectar, like I love drawing? Questions for Animals @ ALS

After reading William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, the students wrote a poem to a strange and mysterious animal. We set the scene: for one day, you and this animal speak the same language! Ask […]

¿Delfín, por qué no llevas a las niñas a la escuela? Preguntas @ Darwin

After reading William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, the students wrote a poem to a strange and mysterious animal. We set the scene: for one day, you and this animal speak the same language! Ask […]

How do you get along with gorillas? And other questions at Moos Elementary…

After reading William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, the students wrote a poem to strange and mysterious animal. We set the scene: for one day, you and this animal speak the same language! Ask the […]

We Will A Joyful World: Odes @ ALS

This week the 4th graders at Avondale Logandale and I read Ode to Enchanted Light by Pablo Neruda. This poem leaves with the sense that the poet is in love with the world, and […]

A Rainbow Is A Sash Of Colors: Odes @ Moos

This week the 3rd graders at Moos and I read Ode to Enchanted Light by Pablo Neruda. This poem leaves with the sense that the poet is in love with the world, and he’s […]

You Are Like a Heart Falling: Odes @ Darwin

This week the 2nd graders at Darwin and I read Ode to Enchanted Light by Pablo Neruda. This poem leaves with the sense that the poet is in love with the world, and he’s […]

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