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April is National Poetry Month! For their twenty-second week of poetry Hale 3rd-5th graders are celebrating all things poetry. On Tuesday we read the poem “March 31st,” by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. In her poem […]

For Shoesmith 5th and 6th graders their 12th poetry week was on April Fools Day. There were a lot of funny shenanigans from teachers, staff, and students. Despite the hilarious pranks we had a […]

For their twenty-first week of poetry Hale after school 3-5 graders explored the world of fables and myths. Fables are stories that usual involve animals as characters and teach a valuable lesson, while myths […]

For their twentieth week, Hale 3-5th grade poets treated themselves to tasty recipe poems. Recipe poems are usual written using cooking/baking terms and measurements. On Tuesday we read the poem, “How To Be A […]

For their 11th week of poetry Shoesmith 5th and 6th graders explored epistolary poetry. Epistolary poems are poems that can be written as letters, notes, or diary entries. We discussed the different ways people […]

In their nineteenth week Hale after school 3rd-5th grade students explored the meaning of heroism. They were asked, what makes someone a hero? To figure this out we watched video clips on Tuesday of […]

Last week for their eighteenth session Hale Elementary 3rd-5th graders explored spoken word poetry. Spoken word poems are made for the stage, its storytelling told through elements of rhythm, rhyme, repetition, improvisation, jazz, and […]

It’s time to share and rewrite for week 10. Shoesmith 5th and 6th graders chose poems they wrote during the first half of our residency that they wanted to edit. Most students wanted to […]

For their ninth week of poetry Shoesmith 5th and 6th graders discovered what it means to give advice. Advice is a suggestion that is given to someone in order to help and guide them. […]

For their seventeenth week of poetry, Hale 3rd-5th grade poets discovered Kenning poetry. Kenning is a word that’s created from putting two unrelated words together. On Tuesday we read my own poem titled, “Joy,” […]

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