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‘Someone gave me a solar system’

On the first day of our 5th Grade poetry residency at Sayre Elementary, we went over what poetry is, as well as the poetic terms “line” and stanza.” We then read a poem by […]

‘Family time is the best’

Lesson Note: For our last week, we celebrated poetry by writing acrostic poems about our favorite seasons! Congrats on everyone in the class for writing so many incredible poems and getting published over the […]

‘I am the frosting to my cake’

Lesson Note: This week, we practiced similes and metaphors. We wrote some odes and then some “I Am” poems. All the students blew me away with their imaginations. Take a look at a few […]

Dear Kobe

Lesson Note: This week, we learned all about epistolary poems by reading “Dear Basketball: by Kobe Bryant. Then everyone wrote their own letter poems! We also wrote our own myth poems this week. Mrs. […]

My smile is like a rainbow

Lesson Note: Our second week was all about animals, rhyming, and learning how to compare! Take a look at some of the creative comparisons students wrote, and read a brilliant rhyming poem all about […]

All About Wishes and Sensory Details

Lesson Note: For our first week, we wrote poems about our wildest wishes, and then wrote poems about some of the places in our lives where we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste some […]

Erasure Poetry

Lesson Note: This week, we finished up our residency with erasure poetry, also known as blackout poetry. This sort of poetry is created when you take a piece of text already written and then […]

Epistolary Poems

Lesson Note: This week, we learned how to write epistolary poems, which are letter poems. Everyone chose a person, place, or thing and wrote a poem in letter form. We practiced identifying tone and […]

Personification and Nature

Lesson Note: This week, we learned what personification was and experimented with writing about it! We then wrote about nature, some with personification, and some with imagery, which we also read about.   Mrs. […]

Place Poems

Lesson Note: This week, we drew places that were special or significant, and then we wrote poems about those places. We learned that writing poems about a piece of art is an ekphrastic poem. […]

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