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A Purple Life: Deconstruction @ Moos Elementary

This week the 3rd 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 is a Wing: Wild Libraries at Moos Elementary

This week the students read about the most magical library… ever! We imagined all sorts of crazy books, and here are some of the fantastic results! Ms. Sweeney 3rd Grade Library Crystal V. This […]

How do you get along with gorillas? And other questions at Moos Elementary…

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

A Rainbow Is A Sash Of Colors: Odes @ Moos

This week the 3rd graders at Moos 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 he’s […]

A Kitchen of Honey: Beautiful Mistakes @ Moos Elementary

The Moos 3rd 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 bees,” […]

Teleport to the Beach! Dreams @ Moos Elementary

This week in 3rd 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 […]

The Noisy Earth: Sound Poems @ Moos Elementary

The sounds of our lives! This weeks the 3rd Graders at Moos Elementary took us on an acoustic tour of their world, and let us listen in on their point of view… Enjoy! Ms. […]

The Moon Is Like a Clock Through the Night: Similes at Moos Elementary

This week the 3rd 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 […]

Poetry Masters and Dancing Dogs: The Wishes of Moos Elementary!

In order to get better acquainted and have some fun, I asked the 3rd graders at Moos Elementary to write poems about their wishes–both wishes that could come true, and those that just fun […]

The Noisy Earth: Sound Poems @ Moos Elementary

The sounds of our lives! This weeks the 3rd Graders at Moos Elementary took us on an acoustic tour of their world, and let us listen in on their point of view… Enjoy! Ms. […]

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