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Happy Holidays + Odes To The Ones We Love @ ALS!

Happy holidays from Avondale Logandale! This week the students learned about Odes! And, instead of collecting their poems at the end of class, they are taking them home as poetry gifts for their family. […]

I Dream of Peace: Dream Poems @ Avondale Logandale

Dreams! Our dreams can show us our wishes, our fears, and the full range of our imaginations! This week the students discussed their dreams in poem-form! Ms. Lozada 4th Grade Dream Toys Juan M. […]

I Hear Silence Like Paper: Sound Poems @ Avondale Logandale

There are a lot of ways to describe your world, and one of those is what you hear. What do you hear– in your neighborhood? At school? At home? This week the students painted […]

You Are Like the Start of a New Day: And Other Comparisons @ Avondale Logandale

For our third week at Moos the students created sound collages (in the form of poems, of course) of their lives. AKA: a sound portrait! For these first five weeks we will be building […]

I Wish My Dog Would Give Me Bacon: And Other Wishes at Avondale Logandale

The residency begins! The first week we have lots to talk about—what is a poem, anyway? Why are poetic lines different? This year at Avondale Logandale we are working with two 4th grade classes, […]

The Sound Of Summer: Where We’re From

It’s our final week of poetry! As we’ve neared the end of our residency, I’ve asked the students to write reflective poems, about themselves, and where they’re from. For this last writing week, I […]

But Now I’m a Rainbow

We’re nearing the end of our poetry residency, and so we reflect. The at 4th graders at Avondale recalled all of their big poetry vocabulary for the year, and then we thought about all […]

I Am Red As Fire / I Am Blue As Air

We started off our lesson by reading The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee by N. Scott Momaday. We continued our examination of imagery, metaphor, and personification. I asked the students to write their own “I […]

When I Think Of You I Think Of The Sky

This week we drew little people on the board: blue, purple, and so on. And then I asked, what is purple like as a person? The fourth graders have been putting together many skills […]

What the walls know… Personification @ ALS Elementary

The fourth graders investigated their classroom for objects to personify. If the marker suddenly came alive, what would it do? What would it say? We cast a magic spell over the room and brought […]

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