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People who love to eat are always the best…poets!

One of my favorite things to write about with students is food! It provides such a great way to engage all of our senses and bring a poem to life. We got started by […]

I Am Poems…brillo como el sol

This week  Mr. Reinholdt’s 7th grade class wrapped up writing their “I Am” poems inspired by Nikki Giovanni’s Ego Trippin’. We also took some time to look over the poems that have been published […]

Magic Words : I want to be a cat…

To start off our first week at Clissold’d after school poetry club we talked about some of the different things that poems can do. This is a brief list of what the amazing 1st, […]

The Winter Blues

I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so sunny and warm for today’s session with Mr. Reinholdt’s 7th graders, but decided it was still a great day for a snowball fight! Inspired by a […]

Family Celebrities

This week in Ms. Murray’s 4th grade class we read My Dad by Ashley Bryan. We talked about how the short lines of the poem helped to give it a rhythm, and while it […]

Sound Poems

This week Ms. Murray’s 4th graders got to work on sound poems. We discussed all the different things that we hear in the various environments we live in. We talked about what we hear […]

Amazing Me…

This week we got started with Ms. Murray’s 4th grade class at Perez Elementary. After some short introductions, we talked a little bit about what poems are, and how they can make us feel. […]

Good things take time, great things take a little longer…

For this week’s session with Mr Reinhold’t 7th graders we read Nikki Giovanni’s classic piece Ego Trippin’. We talked a little bit about the idea of celebrating ourselves and some of the ways that […]

Cotton candy, cookies, tacos, pizza….

7th Grade For this week’s session, we focused on something everyone loves, food! We talked about how food can engage all five of our senses and for this reason it makes a great subject […]

On Mondays I Feel Like

Ms Tze’s 4th Grade For today’s session, we read Francisco Alarcon’s “On Mondays I Feel Like A Dragon”. We talked about how different a Monday can feel compared to a Sunday and then got […]

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