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I Am A Metaphor

For the six week of Hale Elementary’s after school poetry, 3rd-5th graders had fun with metaphors. Metaphors involve comparisons between unlike things using words such as am, is, or are. On Tuesday we read […]

Build Yourself A Metaphor

Happy Friday, dear readers! Hale’s 6-8th grade poetry club had a blast this week diving deeper into figurative language. We spent our time together focused on metaphors and what makes them so important in […]

Spooky Rhymes

Its Halloween time for the 3rd-5th grade poets of Hale Elementary. This week we explored silly and terrifying poems. On Tuesday we read “Halloween Party” by Kenn Nesbitt, who used couplets, pairs of rhyming […]

O, Odes

Hale 6-8th grade poetry club students joined me in my birthday celebration this week, and it was filled with daring poetic language and joyous performances from our students. On Tuesday, we learned about odes, […]

The Rhythm of the Beat

The Hale 6-8th grade poetry club is a musical bunch. For the last few weeks, we’ve been compiling some of our favorite tunes onto a playlist that’s often the soundtrack to our writing sessions. […]

Senses In The City

For our third week together Hale after school 3rd-5th graders used sensory details to experience different places. Sensory details is when a poet uses their five senses (feel, taste, smell, hear, and see) to […]

Dreaming Together

In the second week of our after school residency the 3rd-5th graders at Hale Elementary explored ideas about dreams. We discussed different types of dreams: dreams about the future, silly dreams, fantasies, and nightmares. […]

Personifyin’

This week, our Hale 6-8th grade poetry club deep dove into the world of figurative language. On Tuesday, we practiced simile writing and left some words of encouragement to our future selves. Students were […]

What’s In A Name?

I was excited to meet Ms. Deguilio and the 3-5 graders of Nathan Hale Elementary. Students kicked off their after school poetry residency this week by exploring names and their meanings. They were asked […]

My Name Is My Name

Our Hale after school program got off to a strong start this week as our 6-8th graders focused on our names. First, we read Choi Jeong Min by Franny Choi and discussed the stories […]

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