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On Mondays, I feel marvelous!

18 Dec 2023

Today at Brennemann, our first grade classes were full of animals and emotions! We read Francisco Alarcón’s poem, “On Monday I Feel Like a Dragon / El lunes me siento como un dragón”. We […]

Wishes and Sueños

11 Dec 2023

Today first graders at Brennemann imagined a world they would want to live in. Would you want to live in these worlds of wishes and dreams? [Note: Each poem is a collaboration between students […]

First graders at Brenneman had an exciting first poetry lesson! We read the poem “Fried Chicken,” by Kwame Alexander, who writes that his grandmother’s fried chicken is so good it tastes like pieces of […]

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