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Cotton candy, cookies, tacos, pizza….

7th Grade For this week’s session, we focused on something everyone loves, food! We talked about how food can engage all five of our senses and for this reason it makes a great subject […]

Where I’m From…

7th Grade This week we wrote about where we come from and how home shapes us. We talked about how using the five senses is really important because it helps a poem come alive, […]

What’s In A Name…

In our first week at Perez Elementary, we got started with Mr Reinholdt’s 7th graders by introducing ourselves and talking about our names. We read two poems, both written by Foster Elementary students that […]

Ghosts in the Hallway Pt. 2

As promised, here are the scary poems from Perez. Do not read in the dark… Echo in the Trees By Jewelz and Alice She heard the leaves breaking as she turned around but nothing […]

School’s Out For Summer!

Today was our last session at Perez Elementary and we spent the time celebrating! After passing around a huge bowl of candy, (which is great early in the morning) students looked over their poetry […]

Quiet Poems

It’s almost the end of the school year and students at Perez are excited for their approaching summer vacation. This week we read The Quiet Machine by Ada Limon and talked about what the […]

Ghosts in the Hallway…

Some of the earliest forms of horror stories came in the form of poetry. The young poets at Perez School read some scary classics in poetry like “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert […]

Personifcation- “Why do you do the things you do?”

On Monday at Perez, we talked about personification, and how it can help us write about larger than life ideas, like time, emotions or nature. We also explored how we can personify everyday objects […]

New Words: “Boshkalay Bong Bong…”

This week we talked about some of our favorite words, expressions, and phrases after reading “Hecky Naw” by Jose Olivarez. Students picked a word or phrase they use and created their own definitions for […]

New Words

Sometimes one session just isn’t enough to finish a poem. This week we read “Hecky Naw” by Jose Olivarez a poem about words and how they can represent parts of our identity. I had […]

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