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“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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