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Sabin 4th Grade: Celebrating National Poetry Month!

¡En celebración del mes nacional de poesía los estudiantes de Sabin están decorando tablones de anuncio con su poesía e imágenes de poesía! In celebration of National Poetry Month students at Sabin are decorating […]

Sabin 4th Grade: What’s to Come

Con la llegada de la primavera estamos leyendo Nayyiryh Waheed y hemos estado hablando sobre el futuro, lo que venga y a dónde estamos yendo, en la vida y en nuestras imaginaciones. Estás poemas […]

Sabin 5th Grade Poetry: The Plot

¡Leímos un poema que no tenía un fin, pues tratamos de imaginar un fin para el poema por escribir el fin en forma de poesía; aquí están algunos poemas que hemos escrito! We read […]

Sabin 5th Grade Poetry: Thinking About the Earth

Durante leer este poema escrito por Maya Angelou hemos hablado sobre la naturaleza y la personificación. ¡Mira lo que pensamos! While reading this poem by Maya Angelou we’ve been thinking about nature and personification. […]

Sabin 5th Grade Poetry: Celebrating National Poetry Month!

¡En celebración del mes nacional de poesía los estudiantes de Sabin están decorando tablones de anuncio con su poesía e imágenes de poesía! In celebration of National Poetry Month students at Sabin are decorating […]

Sabin 5th Grade Poetry About What’s to Come

Con la llegada de la primavera estamos leyendo Nayyiryh Waheed y hemos estado hablando sobre el futuro, lo que venga y a dónde estamos yendo, en la vida y en nuestras imaginaciones. Estás poemas […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Poetry is… | Sabin 4th Grade

This week we built upon our introductory foundation of last week’s work with simile, with our this week’s work with metaphor. We read Nikki Giovani’s poem, “Poetry”. Students thought about what poetry is to […]

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