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Revision Party (8th)

We had a fantastic revision party today! We talked about various revision techniques (including talking about if we had kiki or bouba poems!). Each student chose a poem they were interested in continuing to […]

Noisy Poems… rrf! meooow OMG!

Do you like loud sounds or quiet sounds? We wrote noisy poems today! Students drew and wrote about loud and quiet sounds, and worked on writing out some of the letters that connect to […]

Life—It’s not Scaring Me (Kindergarten)

We had a great time in Kindergarten today! We read an excerpt from Maya Angelou’s poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me.” We talked about things were afraid of and and how we can be brave. […]

‘Everyone makes mistakes’: Potion Poems

Students read Truth Serum by Naomi Shihab Nye before penning their own special recipes and serums via poetry! Lesson Note: “When you put something out there onto a piece of paper, what you’ve actually […]

Keeping Quiet

For our second week, we read “On Quiet Feet” by Nikki Grimes. Students noticed how different it looked from last week’s selection, being only a single stanza and with much shorter lines. We decided […]

“Winter Fun Stuff”

Our 2nd sessions this year coincided with International Assembly Day at Swift! So many students were participating in cultural performances including dances, songs, and fashion presentations. There was a lot going on, but we […]

Amazing Me…

This week we got started with Ms. Murray’s 4th grade class at Perez Elementary. After some short introductions, we talked a little bit about what poems are, and how they can make us feel. […]

Good things take time, great things take a little longer…

For this week’s session with Mr Reinhold’t 7th graders we read Nikki Giovanni’s classic piece Ego Trippin’. We talked a little bit about the idea of celebrating ourselves and some of the ways that […]

‘remember that’: Small Kindnesses Poems

Students wrote and talked about kindness before reading the poem, ‘Small Kindnesses’ by Denusha Lameris. In crafting their own poems, students focused on one idea, one stanza, and small ways they have been kind […]

Chicago Poems

Today’s poems are inspired by fellow CPC poet-in-residence Fullamusu Bangura’s poem, “Chicago.” We talked about how poems are made up of “lines” and noticed that each line in “Chicago” was created using only two […]

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