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“Does School Miss Us?” Virtual Poetry Lesson #1

Last week was my first time creating and submitting a Virtual Poetry Lesson for the 2nd graders of Swift Elementary School! In one of the videos I was able to express how much I […]

“Poems Written from Home”

Greetings from the Land of Shelter-in-Place and Social Distancing. Well. I hope that the whole Swift Elementary School Community is safe and healthy. I SOOO miss visiting the classrooms of Ms. Popovic and Ms. […]

“How to Have Fun Writing a Poem”

First, you’ll want to hang out with 2nd grade students and their teachers at Swift Elementary School. Next, you could blend together a great conversation about rules, recipes, and instructions. Stir in 4 tablespoons […]

Valentine Appreciation at Swift Elementary 💙💛!

When students at Swift Elementary School met with me for the 10th time since the school year began, it was on Valentine’s Day – and there was lot’s of love to go around! We […]

Monster Mash!

It’s true. My last visit to Swift Elementary School was all about the monsters! We even played with Dennis Lee’s poem, “I Eat Kids Yum Yum!” by dividing the class into two groups. One […]

Friday Freewrites! Part Two

If you’ve had a chance to read “Friday Freewrites! Part One” then you may remember that most recently, students at Swift Elementary School created poems on the topic of their choice, using as many […]

“Friday Freewrites! Part One”

For our final January poetry sessions at Swift Elementary School we had a fine time reading and listening to a variety of poems. We looked and listened to poems written by other students collected […]

“Days of the Week Poems”

Last Friday I brought a book that I’d found at the library called Salting the Ocean 100 Poems by Young Poets selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. When we read and listened to poems like, […]

“Too many ideas, too many questions, too many poems!”

For Swift Elementary School’s first poetry session for 2020, I’m afraid I got a bit carried away! That means I came into the classrooms with too many ideas, too many questions, too many poems […]

“Classrooms of Poets!”

After our sessions of writing poems about wishing, hearing, comparing, and dreaming – students at Swift Elementary School were as ready to try their hands at writing new poems as they were to celebrate […]

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