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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 […]

“Getting Dreamy”

Do you have a dreamlife? When you fall asleep at night, do you dream? Do you have dreams that are funny, or ridiculous, comforting, or scary? Maybe you are someone who likes to daydream […]

“Making Comparisons Makes Us See in New Ways”

After our first classes together in which we wrote “Wish Poems” and “Sound Poems,” I asked my Poetry Friends at Swift Elementary School what kinds of poems they thought would be next? Their voices […]

“What Does A Brain Sound Like When It’s Thinking?”

Students at Swift Elementary School greeted me with curiosity when I returned on November 22nd. They wanted to know how we would be playing with words this time around. When I asked them what […]

Wishful Thinking at Swift Elementary School!

I was excited to meet the 2nd graders in Ms. Amato’s and Ms. Popovic’s classrooms at Swift Elementary School. The students were so welcoming, respectful, and ready to get creative. When I asked students […]

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