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A Special Gift

We read Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to My Socks” today. We watched a video that represented all the different similes and we loved talking about how fun and strange they all are! The students had […]

Monster List

Last Friday, I was reunited with Swift 2nd graders after missing them for two weeks in a row: one Friday they visited the Peggy Notebaert Museum; and the following week there was no school […]

What animal am I?

Today, we read Ada Limon’s poem “How to Triumph Like a Girl.” It was very interesting to talk about the ways that the world might expect us to be one thing based on our […]

Can Poems Take Care of Someone

Today, we read Naomi Shihab Nye’s “The Red Brocade” and discussed the way the poem tries to take care of the reader and the generous ways it makes offerings to us. We talked about […]

On Mondays, I feel like a dragon!

Today at Swift, we read Francisco X Alarcon’s “On Mondays I feel like a dragon.” We had a lot of fun acting out different animals and talking about what we feel like on different […]

What a monster looks like!

For our first session upon returning from spring break, I thought we could spend time reviewing, as well as looking at some illustrated poetry books and reading poems aloud. This is what we did […]

Revision Party

Today, we had a revision party in Ms. Reed’s third grade! We chose a poem we love and wanted to spend more time with, talked through some of the things we’ve learned and then […]

Jealous clouds, guitars, and more

In our recent sessions, Swift 2nd graders were counting down the hours before spring break began! We read “Ode to My Shoes” by Francisco X. Alarcón, and talked about giving non-human things – like […]

I wish

In Ms Reed’s class, we wrote poems that make wishes! We talked about how we could write with our five senses and all of the different types of wishes we can make. We had […]

2nd Grade Experts Weigh In

Today Swift 2nd graders talked about (1) things they know how to do well; (2) the recipes they know how to cook; (3) and how to give someone expert instructions. We passed around different […]

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