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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 […]

Where to Find a Poem

Swift Elementary School 2nd graders believe that poems can be found nearly everywhere! After we read “Finding a Poem” by Karla Kuskin, students brainstormed places where poems are found and wrote their own poems. […]

Beginning the New Year With Acrostics

For our 1st session of the new year, me and the 2nd graders at Swift Elementary spent time getting reacquainted and sharing stories about what we did over the holiday break. After that, I […]

A Hat Made of Lemons!

2nd Graders at Swift Elementary had a fun time using their imaginative powers to join things together in inventive ways. These poems are called “Swan of Bees” poems, and they allow us to see […]

I dream and dream and dream….

2nd graders at Swift are so imaginative and dreamy and kind! Students are bringing so much excitement to writing their own poems, that it is difficult to select only three or four poems to […]

How is a smile like a cherry soda pop?

For our third remote learning poetry lesson of the 2020-21 school year, 2nd grade students at Swift explored ways of comparing similarities between things that seem to have nothing in common. For example: what […]

Sounds Abound!

For their second lesson, 2nd graders at Swift closed their eyes to listen and remember the different sounds of home; outdoor sounds, and sounds of other places. They had to go into their memory […]

2nd Grade Wish Poems!

I am so happy to be invited to return to Swift as Poet-In-Residence for a second year. Ever since March of this year, I have missed entering the actual school building with its bright […]

Virtual Poetry Lesson #5: Question Poems

Have you been wondering why it has taken me nearly two weeks to publish these poems? Poets, kids, scientists, and private investigators all make it a point to ask lots of questions. Oh, and […]

Virtual Poetry Lesson #4: Odes

I salute you!/ Swift Elementary School 2nd Graders and their teachers! You are still coming through/ with energy and ideas, brainstorming, and making art with words,/ no matter how our times have changed. Your […]

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