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Carnival of the Animals Featured Poems: Moos

In collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, on March 20 and 21, students from the Hands on Stanzas program participated in a presentation of Carnival of the Animals. This special concert designed for schools […]

Rainbows, Parties, & Everything! Dream Poems @ Moos Elementary

This week: our dreams! Full of hopes, fears, and free pancakes… Ms. Echevaria 5th Grade UCK!!! Nicholas D. One time the world was upside down in a dream of course, it was weird I […]

The Plosh Plosh Plosh of Ice and other sounds at Moos Elementary

This week we’re exploring sound poems. Some sounds already have words, but others don’t, and I encouraged the students to invite sound words where needed. Students considered the sounds at home, at school, and […]

My Little Sister Is Like A Vacuum & Other Strange Similes @ Moos Elementary

This week the students and I discussed similes. We tried our hands at surprising comparisons, to see what exciting new ideas might emerge from strange pairings… Mr. Schade 4th Grade New Born Sister Olivia […]

Personnages à longues oreilles @ Moos Elementary

To continue prepping for our collaboration with and field trip to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the students and made one more poem from the music of Carnival of the Animals, specifically, the movement called […]

The Magnificent Wishes of Moos Elementary

This week I asked the students about their wishes–both attainable, every day wishes, and the most wild fantasies they could imagine. The students had a whole lot of fun with this one, as you […]

Moos Elementary Puts a Cabbage Back Together

This week we read an excerpt from “Some Puts a Pineapple Together” by Wallace Stevens. The students discussed how Stevens takes an everyday object and sees many wondrous worlds inside of it. I asked […]

I Love Spring For Itself: A Haiku For Every Season at Moos Elementary

The students and I had an extra long break due to the first vortex of 2015! In honor of how frozen we were that week, when we finally got back together we read a […]

Sorry Not Sorry! Moos Edition!

This week we read the delectable “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams, in which he expertly maneuvers the “sorry, not sorry” faux-apology. As enjoyable as Williams’ poem is, it is even […]

Where We’re From: Moos Edition

This week we read George Ella Lyon’s “Where I’m From.” Normally, we find ourselves saying things like “I’m from Chicago,” but this poems shows that if you describe all the little things your from–the […]

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