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Music is Like a Breeze in the Trees: Comparisons @ Moos Elementary

This week students learned about comparisons, and specifically similes. The 3rd graders made the astute observation that a simile is interesting because the two things being compared a different enough to make you stop […]

Mi mamá escuchando la radio: The Sounds We Hear @ Darwin Elementary

For our third poetry session, the Darwin second graders and I discussed… bum ba da bum… sound! We talked about how using sounds can create a richness in your writing, and is another way […]

I Wish My Dog Would Give Me Bacon: And Other Wishes at Avondale Logandale

The residency begins! The first week we have lots to talk about—what is a poem, anyway? Why are poetic lines different? This year at Avondale Logandale we are working with two 4th grade classes, […]

I Wish A Bird Can Dance At A Party With Me: Moos Wishes

The residency begins! The first week we have lots to talk about—what is a poem, anyway? Why are poetic lines different? This year at Moos we are working with 2nd and 3rd Grades. In […]

The Ocean is Like the Wind: 2nd Grade Similes at Darwin

For our second poetry session together, the second graders and I worked on similes. We spent a while discussing what makes a simile exciting: that the two things don’t seem the same, and we […]

I Wish My Crayons Could Talk: Darwin Poetry Week 1!

The residency begins! The first week we have lots to talk about—what is a poem, anyway? Why are poetic lines different? The Darwin second graders had a great conversation about what poetry is, and […]

The Sound Of Summer: Where We’re From

It’s our final week of poetry! As we’ve neared the end of our residency, I’ve asked the students to write reflective poems, about themselves, and where they’re from. For this last writing week, I […]

Melocoton & Enfrijoladas: Where We’re From

As we’ve neared the end of our residency, I’ve asked the students to write reflective poems, about themselves, and where they’re from. For this last writing week, I wanted students to write autobiographically, and […]

A Book From Pájaros: Where We’re From

For our final week of writing poems together, I wanted to students to write autobiographically, and paint us a picture of where they are from, just like George Ella Lyon does in her poem […]

I Used To Be A Monday / But Now I’m A Friday

We’re nearing the end of our poetry residency, and so we reflect. The at 2nd Graders recalled all of their big poetry vocabulary for the year, and then we thought about all the ways […]

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