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Do you hear what I hear?

What is a favorite sound you have? Is there a sound you would rather not have to listen to? This week, our after-school poetry club talked about the symphony of sounds we hear every […]

Wish Poems: Deseo ir al espacio y descubrir secretos no descubiertos…

What is something you wish could be true even though you know it’s not really possible? Walking on clouds, pizza everyday, 900,000 stuffed animals, and infinite wishes from a genie were just a few […]

Reality is like a game with big choices…

What do an elephant and a mouse have in common? What dessert do your eyes look like? For this week’s session we talked about comparisons and how contrasting different things can help our writing […]

I hear my voice ringing out loud…

This week for poetry club at Clissold we focused on writing poems about ourselves. We read Leslie Reese’s poem I Am and talked about stanzas and lines and how to use them in our […]

O world! O life! O time!

This week we got started on poems using personification as a device in our poems. We read “A Lament” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and talked about how we could give human qualities to things […]

People who love to eat are always the best…poets!

One of my favorite things to write about with students is food! It provides such a great way to engage all of our senses and bring a poem to life. We got started by […]

I Am Poems…brillo como el sol

This week  Mr. Reinholdt’s 7th grade class wrapped up writing their “I Am” poems inspired by Nikki Giovanni’s Ego Trippin’. We also took some time to look over the poems that have been published […]

Magic Words : I want to be a cat…

To start off our first week at Clissold’d after school poetry club we talked about some of the different things that poems can do. This is a brief list of what the amazing 1st, […]

The Winter Blues

I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so sunny and warm for today’s session with Mr. Reinholdt’s 7th graders, but decided it was still a great day for a snowball fight! Inspired by a […]

Family Celebrities

This week in Ms. Murray’s 4th grade class we read My Dad by Ashley Bryan. We talked about how the short lines of the poem helped to give it a rhythm, and while it […]

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