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Happy Holidays + Odes To The Ones We Love @ ALS!

Happy holidays from Avondale Logandale! This week the students learned about Odes! And, instead of collecting their poems at the end of class, they are taking them home as poetry gifts for their family. […]

Ode to the Ones We Love: Happy Holidays from Moos!

This week the students learned about Odes! And, instead of collecting their poems at the end of class, they are taking them home as poetry gifts for their family. I took a few pictures: […]

Happy Holidays from Darwin!

This week the students learned about Odes! And, instead of collecting their poems at the end of class, they are taking them home as poetry gifts for their family. I took a few pictures: […]

I Dream of Being a Gingerbread: Dream Poems @ Moos Elementary

Dreams! Our dreams can show us our wishes, our fears, and the full range of our imaginations! This week the students discussed their dreams in poem-form! Ms. Sigmond 3rd Grade I Dream Yuliana C. […]

I Dream of Peace: Dream Poems @ Avondale Logandale

Dreams! Our dreams can show us our wishes, our fears, and the full range of our imaginations! This week the students discussed their dreams in poem-form! Ms. Lozada 4th Grade Dream Toys Juan M. […]

A Hat of Kisses: Strange Poems @ Darwin Elementary!

This week we discussed mistakes, and why they are great. You can’t try new things without mistakes! You can’t push yourself without making a mistake! And sometimes those mistakes make something beautiful that we […]

I Hear Silence Like Paper: Sound Poems @ Avondale Logandale

There are a lot of ways to describe your world, and one of those is what you hear. What do you hear– in your neighborhood? At school? At home? This week the students painted […]

I Hear My Grandma Says Alo Alo: Sound Poems @ Moos Elementary

This week the students and I discussed… sounds! We can paint a picture of our world through what we hear–outside, at school, at home. Enjoy! Ms. Sigmond 3rd Grade Untitled Guillermo I hear whistling […]

Yo sueño que soy un caja: I Dream that I am a Box @ Darwin Elementary

This week the students and I discussed dreams: funny dreams, scary dreams, nonsense dreams. We talked about how we can use all of our skills (adding sounds and comparisons, using short poetic lines) to […]

You Are Like the Start of a New Day: And Other Comparisons @ Avondale Logandale

For our third week at Moos the students created sound collages (in the form of poems, of course) of their lives. AKA: a sound portrait! For these first five weeks we will be building […]

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