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A Song of Bugs: Beautiful Mistakes @ Avondale Logandale

The Avondale Logandale 4th graders worked from a classic this week by Kenneth Koch. Once when Koch was teaching, a student meant to write “a swarm of bees,” but accidentally wrote “a swan of […]

A Kitchen of Honey: Beautiful Mistakes @ Moos Elementary

The Moos 3rd graders worked from a classic this week by Kenneth Koch. Once when Koch was teaching, a student meant to write “a swarm of bees,” but accidentally wrote “a swan of bees,” […]

Un Corazon De Arboles: Beautiful Mistakes @ Darwin Elementary

The Darwin 2nd graders worked from a classic this week by Kenneth Koch. Once when Koch was teaching, a student meant to write “a swarm of bees,” but accidentally wrote “a swan of bees,” […]

Teleport to the Beach! Dreams @ Moos Elementary

This week in 3rd grade poems: Dream Worlds! The students and I discussed the playfulness of dreams, and how we could use the comparisons, sounds and other skills we had already worked on to […]

I Dream Of A Bounce House: 2nd Grade Dreams @ Darwin!

This week in 2nd grade poems: Dream Worlds! The students and I discussed the playfulness of dreams, and how we could use the comparisons, sounds and other skills we had already worked on to […]

The Noisy Earth: Sound Poems @ Moos Elementary

The sounds of our lives! This weeks the 3rd Graders at Moos Elementary took us on an acoustic tour of their world, and let us listen in on their point of view… Enjoy! Ms. […]

I Whisper to the Moon / I Sing to the Stars

This week in 4th Grade poetry: Sounds! Crash! Meow! The students let us listen in on snippets of their life below: Ms. Afzal 4th Grade Sounds Dayanara L. Mama abla bla-bla-bla Mama grita rara-rara-rara […]

I hear my mom cooking palomitas, POP! — The Sounds of Darwin Elementary

For our third class together, the Darwin 2nd graders and I worked on incorporating sound into our poems. We looked around our houses, schools, and of course, Chicago, for inspiration. Listen up! Mr. Posthelwait […]

Dancing is Like Victory: Similes at Avondale Logandale Elementary

This week the 4th graders and I worked on comparisons… why wouldn’t you say the wall is like the wall? Well, they are exactly the same thing! Similes make our brains pop by finding […]

Un Abrazo Es Como Un Circulo: Similes at Darwin Elementary

Similes are exciting because they illuminate similarities between different things. This week the 2nd graders and I worked on our own similes, or, comparison poems. The 2nd graders came up with a lot of […]

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