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Poetry and Playfulness (8th grade)

Our first poetry unit in Ms. Krasic’s 8th grade class is on play and surprise. We talked about how poetry can give us tools to express some of our deepest emotions and thoughts, while […]

Kindergarten Wishes

In Kindergarten today, we talked about wishes and imagining the things we would love to see happen. The kids drew amazing pictures of their wishes and each student wrote a line of our combined […]

Last day party!

It was so hard to say goodbye at our last day at Dever! We did a number of wonderful activities to finish the year strong with one another! Each student received a notebook and […]

Last Day Party!

Today was our last day of our poetry at Haugan! I’ll be honest, there were a few tears here and there! I’m so thankful to have been able to spend the year with these […]

Revisions!

This was our second-to-last class! The students had the fantastic idea of creating a poetry yearbook to remember our year together! Today we worked on creating and decorating our final revisions for the yearbook. […]

Field Trip to Ronan Park

We had an exciting week at Haugan Elementary School! Instead of our normal classroom day, we went on a field trip to Ronan Park! We partnered with the North River Commission to write ekphrastic […]

Revisions

This was our second-to-last class! The students at Haugan had the fantastic idea of creating a poetry yearbook to remember our year together! Today we worked on creating and decorating our final revisions for […]

Seasons in Chicago

Although it is supposedly Spring, things have been pretty gloomy around here! In order to try to welcome some warmer weather, we read “Knoxville, TN” by Nikki Giovanni and relished her very specific descriptions […]

Summer in Chicago!

Although it is supposedly Spring, things have been pretty gloomy around here! In order to try to welcome some warmer weather, we read “Knoxville, TN” by Nikki Giovanni and relished her very specific descriptions […]

A Special Gift

In Ms Carteno’s class at Dever, we read Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to My Socks.” We discussed how surprising his similes are and the students remarked that all the natural imagery made them feel like […]

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