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Happy Holidays from South Loop Poetry Club!

On our last Poetry Club session of 2023, our poets took some time to sit with the poems they’ve made over the last few months and discuss what they were about, and what they […]

On Mondays, I feel marvelous!

Today at Brennemann, our first grade classes were full of animals and emotions! We read Francisco Alarcón’s poem, “On Monday I Feel Like a Dragon / El lunes me siento como un dragón”. We […]

Sabin Winter Showcase Shout Outs!

This year at Sabin’s Winter Showcase some poets will be performing! If you don’t have a chance to see them live, or if you’d like to read their poems over, and over again…check them […]

4th Graders and their 5 Senses

This week at Smyser Elementary the talented 4th graders take you on a journey of the senses! Enjoy their fantastical and realistic places of peace, and all the sights, smells, tastes, and sounds that […]

Cotton candy, cookies, tacos, pizza….

7th Grade For this week’s session, we focused on something everyone loves, food! We talked about how food can engage all five of our senses and for this reason it makes a great subject […]

Thinking About Symbols | Sabin 5th Grade

We read “La Muralla/The Mural” by Nicolas Guillen, and we are talking and thinking about symbols. In this poem Guillen writes the story of how a mural was made and what the images on […]

On Mondays I Feel Like

Ms Tze’s 4th Grade For today’s session, we read Francisco Alarcon’s “On Mondays I Feel Like A Dragon”. We talked about how different a Monday can feel compared to a Sunday and then got […]

Thinking About Symbols | Sabin 4th Grade

We read “La Muralla/The Mural” by Nicolas Guillen, and we are talking and thinking about symbols. In this poem Guillen writes the story of how a mural was made and what the images on […]

Hopes for the Holidays (Kind-of Concrete Poems)

For my final lesson with Ms. Wilson’s 4th graders at Dulles Elementary, we dove right into visual poetry. We read Whenever You See a Tree by Padma Venkatraman and learned that sometimes poetry is […]

All Good Things Come to An End…

For our final session with Ms. Tze’s class at Dulles I decided to bring in a group exercise based on Magnetic Poetry. Each student received two index cards and everyone wrote down one word, […]

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