All posts in Avondale-Logandale

A strawberry is an ocean / A strawberry is a squishing

Ms. Batres 3rd Grade   Grapes Jose M. You are bouncing in a ball the ball bounces everywhere a ball builds a bridge its a soccer ball its a face is a rock its […]

Silver is Silly like a Silly Person: Color personification at Avondale

Ms. Batres 3rd Grade Rojo John G. Rojo es pintura. Rojo es la bandera. Rojo es las manzanas. Rojo es para los labios. Rojo es sangre. Rojo es para los carros. Rojo es para […]

Yo son un pastel de fresa

We’re working on so many poetic skills these days! We’re always looking at poetic line and stanza, of course, and we’re now thinking about personification. This week we read the phenomenal poem “The Delight […]

This Book Feels Like Power – Library Poems @ Avondale Logandale

This week: poems about the most magical libraries we can dream up! Ms. Batres 3rd Grade Library By Edgar R. This book makes me feel like I’m in space This book took me to […]

I Used to Be a Stinky Shoe- “I used to…/ But now…” Poems @ Avondale Logandale

Ms. Pease 3rd Grade Savage Bro By Dylan V. I used to be a game But now I am a controller I used to be a Roblox character But now I am a hacker […]

Los árboles son colores: Haiku at Avondale

This week: seasonal haiku! Students were encouraged to start with the season of their choice, and then see how many they could make. We ready poems by Issa, and discussed using elements of nature […]

An Ocean of Takis: Swan of Bees

This week we had some silly fun with language. We discussed the idea that a poet can make almost nonsense and yet… your mind will make an image anyway! Now that’s a powerful mind… […]

I dream that I was playing with planets: Avondale Dream Poems

This week in the third grade classrooms of Avondale Logandale… dream poems! We discussed all the different sorts of dreams one might have: scary dreams, weird dreams, funny, sad, confusing, happy, triumphant dreams. We’ve […]

Talking Preposterous –– Sound Poems and Comparison Poems @ Avondale Logandale

Sounds! They fill our world and inform our surroundings–often making or halting a mood. But how do we put them on paper? This week the third graders and I made sound portraits of our […]

The World is like a Big Animal –– Comparison Poems @ ALS

Ms. Pease 3rd Grade Comparison Poem Adamaris S. The color yellow is like the sun The color red is like an apple A cat is like a pillow Reading is like the world opening […]

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