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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 […]

What’s In A Name…

In our first week at Perez Elementary, we got started with Mr Reinholdt’s 7th graders by introducing ourselves and talking about our names. We read two poems, both written by Foster Elementary students that […]

Food Glorious Food

4th Grade Food glorious food! Today we wrote poems about all the things we love to eat and snack on. We talked about how food is great to talk about because it engages all […]

Do you hear what I hear?

4th Grade For today’s session, we talked about sound and all the different things we hear daily. We started off by trying to be as quiet as we could for a whole minute and […]

Family Celebrity Poems

4th Grade This week at Dulles we wrote poems inspired by Ashley Bryan’s poem “My Dad”. We started off by sharing some favorite memories of a family member we admire, and what it is […]

I Am… Who we are

For our first session with Ms. Tze’s 4th grade class we introduced ourselves by writing an I Am Poem inspired by Leslie Reese. We talked about all the different things that make us who […]

School’s Out For Summer!

Today was our last session at Perez Elementary and we spent the time celebrating! After passing around a huge bowl of candy, (which is great early in the morning) students looked over their poetry […]

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