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What do you hear?

What sounds do you hear at home, outdoors, at school, or at work? Are the sounds happy? Exciting? Surprising, or Sad? This is what Swift 2nd graders were exploring the last time we got […]

Wishing, Again!

This is the 3rd year that a new group of 2nd graders at Swift opened up our poetry time together by sharing their ideas about poetry, learning about LINE, and their writing their own […]

We Wonder: “What’s under?”

It’s hard to believe that Ms. Leslie’s poetry residencies with Swift 2nd graders for the 2020-2021 school year have come to a close. All of our lessons this year have been remote! Somehow, we […]

Where we come from, Who we belong to, and What makes us unique

As Swift 2nd graders continued with remote learning, we talked about diversity – meaning variety and difference – and the many places we find it: in plants, trees, and flowers; in the animal kingdom […]

2nd Grade Odes of Wonder

Odes and wondrousness is what we were investigating during our 17th remote poetry session. Swift 2nd graders contemplated things that they wonder about, things that make them curious. We read “In Praise of Tiny […]

“Life is For Us!”

As months of distance learning continued, Swift 2nd graders paused to think about what is important to them. Together, we looked at “A Little Girl’s Poem” by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem looks at the […]

Are You Afraid of Monsters?

As distance learning continues, 2nd graders at Swift have been thinking about things they are afraid of and whether or not they believe in monsters. We showed off monster faces in our device cameras, […]

Wintery Poems❄️

For our 13th distance learning poetry session, Swift 2nd graders thought about winter wonderlands. After reading and discussing “winter poem” by Nikki Giovanni, students wrote their own winter poems. ❄️ Ms. Popovic 2nd Grade […]

Terribly Terrific Tuesday: Alliteration

2nd graders at Swift continued distance learning last week by playing with alliteration – which is when the same letter sound is at the beginning of words that are close together. After the reading […]

What’s on the Menu? 2nd Grade Recipe Poems

As distance learning continues, we’ve concocted more word play by using the language of recipes to create poems that imagine things such as: how to make a friend laugh, how to bounce on a […]

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