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Stirring and Whisking Non-traditonal Recipes

Last week 4th graders in Mr. Adenuga’s class talked about food and cooking traditional and non-traditional recipes. They shared that they knew how to make breakfast, spaghetti, fried chicken, burgers, baked beans, and grilled […]

“A poem that runs out of ideas”

For our 4th poetry session, students thought about different kinds of dreams and wrote Dream Poems. For our 5th session, we began with a game of rhymes, before talking about coming up with crazy […]

“A World Made For Us”

For our 6th sessions, Twain 3rd Graders imagined the kind of world we would live in if they were in charge. I shared my poem, “Life is For Us and It Shines,” which is […]

“I Am Black”

After getting off to a rocky start for our 3rd and 4th sessions, 4th graders in Mr. Adenuga’s class began to open-up to poetry. This week I shared Kwame Alexander’s book, How to Write […]

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 […]

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