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But Now I’m a Rainbow

We’re nearing the end of our poetry residency, and so we reflect. The at 4th graders at Avondale recalled all of their big poetry vocabulary for the year, and then we thought about all […]

I Used To Be The Whip / But Now I’m Nae Nae

We’re nearing the end of our poetry residency, and so we reflect. The 3rd graders at Moos recalled all of their big poetry vocabulary for the year, and then we thought about all the […]

I Am The Moon Looking At The Moon

We started off our lesson by reading The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee by N. Scott Momaday. We continued our examination of imagery, metaphor, and personification. I asked the students to write their own “I […]

I Am The Storm Letting My Madness Go

We started off our lesson by reading The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee by N. Scott Momaday. We continued our examination of imagery, metaphor, and personification. I asked the students to write their own “I […]

I Am Red As Fire / I Am Blue As Air

We started off our lesson by reading The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee by N. Scott Momaday. We continued our examination of imagery, metaphor, and personification. I asked the students to write their own “I […]

Poetry Feels Like Letters Dancing With Feelings

Last week Ms. Freedman’s third graders did a special prompt. I asked them to write what poetry feels like to them. They came up with some pretty awesome ideas! Ms. Freedman 3rd Grade Poetry […]

A Blue Day Is An Okay Day: Colors Personified at Moos Elementary

The third graders have been putting together many skills lately: personification, imagery, metaphor, simile, and their poems are so rich because of it! I thought I’d give them this prompt, and see what they […]

When I Think Of You I Think Of The Sky

This week we drew little people on the board: blue, purple, and so on. And then I asked, what is purple like as a person? The fourth graders have been putting together many skills […]

My Blue Poem: Colors Personified at Darwin

The second graders have been putting together many skills lately: personification, imagery, metaphor, simile, and their poems are so rich because of it! I thought I’d give them this prompt, and see what they […]

The Pencil Always Dances: Personification at Moos Elementary

The third graders at Moos Elementary learned a hefty new vocabulary word this week: personification! Next they investigated their classroom for objects to personify. If the books suddenly came alive, what would they do? […]

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