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“Park to-go then space to-go.” – Direction Poems @ Moos Elementary

16 Feb 2018

Today at Moos, we wrote directional poems! We started the day by drawing our houses, wrote real and imaginary directions to them, and then combined the two types of directions to make our poems! […]

Food Memory @ Moos Elementary

20 Jan 2018

This week at Moos, we read “Uknown Father” by Vietnamese-American poet, Thanhha Lai. The students learned the Vietnamese and French words that were in the poem and we talked about the food we eat […]

The Book of Questions @ Moos Elementary

12 Jan 2018

Today, I started off my residency at Moos Elementary with The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda. We read some of his poems and talked about the types of lines and stanzas he uses, […]

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