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Love is Poems – Avondale Logandale 5th Grade – Winter 2020

Students in Ms. Pannell’s 5th-grade classes spent their 6th session in February exploring love through poetry and drawing creative comparisons.   Ms. Pannel 5th Grade 8:45AM   Love Xiomara L.V.   Love is in […]

In our feelings Poems – Moos 3rd Grade – Winter 2020

In the 6th session of the Chicago Poetry Center residency, 3rd-grade students used their poems to explore their feelings through comparisons, descriptive language, and playful imagery. Ms. Sanders 3rd Grade untitled Jacqueline M.   […]

In our feelings Poems – Avondale Logandale 3rd & 4th Grade –Winter 2020

In the 5th session of the Chicago Poetry Center residency 3rd and 4th-grade students used their poems to explore their feelings through comparisons, descriptive language, and playful imagery. Ms. Lozada 3rd Grade   untitled […]

In Our Feelings Poems – Avondale Logandale 5th Grade –Winter 2020

In the 5th session of the Chicago Poetry Center residency students in Ms. Pannells 5th grade classes used their poems to explore their feelings through comparisons, descriptive language, and playful imagery. Ms. Pannel 5th […]

A Ninja Is Like A Mouse – Comparison Poems @ Darwin Winter 2020

During the 3rd week of the Chicago Poetry residency, youth were encouraged to find similarities between different things. This encouraged creativity and to recognize what people and things might have in common. These are […]

Strange Pairs Poems 3rd & 4th Grade @ Avondale Logandale Winter 2020

During the 4th week of the Chicago Poetry Residency students were encouraged to let go of traditional writing and play with words and their imaginations. Students were prompted to explore connecting two things that […]

Comparison Poems 3rd & 4th Grade @ Avondale Logandale Fall 2019

During the 3rd week of the Chicago Poetry residency, youth were encouraged to find similarities between different things. This encouraged creativity and to recognize what people and things might have in common. These are […]

A Strange Pairing Poems @ Moos Fall 2019

During the 5th week of the Chicago Poetry Center residency, Moos students were encouraged to explore their imaginations by creating weird, strange and funny word pairings. Through play and sharing poetry students came up […]

Rhyme and Pattern – Avondale Logandale 5th Grade – Fall 2019

Students in Ms. Pannell’s 5th-grade classes spent two sessions working on rhyme and creative writing. The first-week students worked on rhyming patterns, learned brainstorming techniques and used examples from music to write original poems. […]

I Hear – Yo Escucho Poems 3rd & 4th Grade @ Avondale Logandale Fall 2019

How do you make noise on paper?/ ¿Cómo haces ruido en el papel? In our second week of poetry class, we explored using poetry to express the soundtracks of our lives. We read a […]

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