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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 […]

All Good Things Come to An End…

For our final session with Ms. Tze’s class at Dulles I decided to bring in a group exercise based on Magnetic Poetry. Each student received two index cards and everyone wrote down one word, […]

Where I’m From…

7th Grade This week we wrote about where we come from and how home shapes us. We talked about how using the five senses is really important because it helps a poem come alive, […]

Wish Poems

4th Grade What would you wish for if you knew it would come true? Today we made a wish list poem and talked about all the emotions we feel when we make a wish. […]

One of these things is not like the other…

4th Grade For today’s session, we talked about how we can compare things that are very different but still similar to each other. For example what do a mouse and an elephant have in […]

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