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“I smelled the smell of Winter Air” Odes and Ekphrastics with Dulles

At Dulles, we discussed and learned about two types of poems that represent memory with imagery. We read Nikki Giovanni’s ‘knoxville, tennessee’, which inspired us to reflect on our Thanksgiving dinners and other happy […]

Happy Places

Later in the week, Ms. Wilson’s 4th-graders at Dulles Elementary dove right into figurative language! We read Nikki Giovanni’s Knoxville Tennessee and talked about our happy places. I lead them through a short guided […]

Sound Poems

This week at Dulles I brought in some poems and curriculum from the Hands-on-Stanzas archive (Thank you to Beth and Leslie!) and taught a lesson on sound poems. We started by reading examples from […]

Food Glorious Food

4th Grade Food glorious food! Today we wrote poems about all the things we love to eat and snack on. We talked about how food is great to talk about because it engages all […]

Do you hear what I hear?

4th Grade For today’s session, we talked about sound and all the different things we hear daily. We started off by trying to be as quiet as we could for a whole minute and […]

Outstanding Odes from 6th graders

For the third week in our mini-residency Dulles 6th graders explored odes. Odes are poems that praise and celebrate people, places, and things. On Tuesday we read “Ode to Kool-Aid” by Marcus Jackson. In […]

“A poem that runs out of ideas”

For our 4th poetry session, students thought about different kinds of dreams and wrote Dream Poems. For our 5th session, we began with a game of rhymes, before talking about coming up with crazy […]

“I am as creative as an artist” Figurative Language at Dulles

In Mr. Bridges’ Poetry Specials, we talked about using similes and metaphors to make comparisons in our poems. For examples, we read through translations of Issa and Buson’s haiku, and Francisco X. Alarcon’s On […]

Writing About our Pets

When I visited Ms. Tze’s 4th-grade class at Dulles, we first spent some time getting to know each other with a name game, then I heard from them what they’d been learning so far […]

My smile is like a rainbow

Lesson Note: Our second week was all about animals, rhyming, and learning how to compare! Take a look at some of the creative comparisons students wrote, and read a brilliant rhyming poem all about […]

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