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Now For The Best Part: Seasonal Haiku @ ALS

March is funny weather. Some days its winter and other days, spring. Given the changes outside and the student’s increasing skill with line breaks and imagery, it was the right time to try out […]

I Dream Of Colors In The Sky: Sleepy Poems at ALS Elementary

What do you think about as you drift off to sleep? We used Li Po’s contemplative “Quiet Night Thoughts,” to consider our thoughts between waking life and dreams. Because he is so skilled in […]

A purple army inside a grape: Poetic Deconstruction @ ALS

This week the 4th Graders took a look at Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, by Wallace Stevens. We inspected an actual pineapple to try and figure out how Stevens got such wild images out […]

This book sounds like the ocean

This week at Avondale Logandale Elementary, the fourth grade students read about the most magical library… ever! We imagined all sorts of crazy books, and here are some of the fantastic results! Ms. Lozada […]

Do you love nectar, like I love drawing? Questions for Animals @ ALS

After reading William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, the students wrote a poem to a strange and mysterious animal. We set the scene: for one day, you and this animal speak the same language! Ask […]

We Will A Joyful World: Odes @ ALS

This week the 4th graders at Avondale Logandale and I read Ode to Enchanted Light by Pablo Neruda. This poem leaves with the sense that the poet is in love with the world, and […]

A Song of Bugs: Beautiful Mistakes @ Avondale Logandale

The Avondale Logandale 4th graders worked from a classic this week by Kenneth Koch. Once when Koch was teaching, a student meant to write “a swarm of bees,” but accidentally wrote “a swan of […]

There were 2,000 dragons and they loved me! Dreams @ ALS

This week in 4th grade poems: Dream Worlds! The students and I discussed the playfulness of dreams, and how we could use the comparisons, sounds and other skills we had already worked on to […]

I Whisper to the Moon / I Sing to the Stars

This week in 4th Grade poetry: Sounds! Crash! Meow! The students let us listen in on snippets of their life below: Ms. Afzal 4th Grade Sounds Dayanara L. Mama abla bla-bla-bla Mama grita rara-rara-rara […]

Dancing is Like Victory: Similes at Avondale Logandale Elementary

This week the 4th graders and I worked on comparisons… why wouldn’t you say the wall is like the wall? Well, they are exactly the same thing! Similes make our brains pop by finding […]

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