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3rd Grade Inventions

It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway thru our poetry residency! For our fifth sessions together, Twain 3rd graders discussed thinking “out-of-the-box:” being inventive, using our imaginations, and the pictures that come […]

4th Grade Sound Collaboration

For our 2nd session, 4th graders in Mr. Adenuga’s class reviewed the senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. We then collaborated on a “Sound Poem.” Sound Poem We hear sounds of life and […]

4th Graders Introduce Themselves

When I introduced myself to 4th graders in Mr. Adenuga’s class – telling them that I would be joining them for poetry each week – students responded with some skepticism. Some hoped that we […]

3rd Graders Respond to the Question: What Do You Dream?

For our 4th sessions together, Twain 3rd graders considered the nature of waking and sleeping dreams: dreams as hopes, and scary dreams to file under the heading: nightmares!🙀 We discussed the benefits and downsides […]

“Her brain is like the internet”- Twain 3rd Graders Make Comparisons

As an introduction to simile and metaphor, Twain 3rd graders discussed comparisons, or, what it means to note similarities between two things. Color, shape, size, idea, feeling, and sound are some of the ways […]

Twain 3rd Grade Ears Hear…

For our 2nd sessions together, Twain 3rd graders honed-in on the sense of sound. We talked about happy and sad sounds, loud sounds and quiet sounds, favorite sounds, and onomotopeia or, the use of […]

Twain 3rd Graders Bring the Joy!

For my first poetry date with Twain Elementary School’s 3rd graders, I came prepared to introduce the residency in four classrooms; to talk about “art class with words,” and learn something about the students […]

Bittersweet

For the last day of this year’s poetry residency, we played alliteration and word-association games. We talked about what it means to graduate, and how the end of the school year can feel – […]

Reflections

For our final sessions at Kozminski for the 2022-23 school year, we talked about being reflective. Students talked about things that they have learned, and how things have changed, or not changed since the […]

Summer Dreaming

Last week was my last session with Swift 2nd graders for the 2022-23 school year. We read I’d Know You Anywhere, My Love by Nancy Tillman, and students visited their poetry folders to review […]

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