Poetry in Pictures
Poetry in Pictures: For the First-Grade Mind Original Artwork by 7 year old Keith Norris Jr. (pictorial poetry at it’s finest) ± I’ve never written a haiku. I have been known to write a high coo’,...
View ArticlePoem: My Person by Josviel Diaz
My Person by Josviel Diaz Langston Hughes was a poet. Now he is a poem. Poem written by one of my first graders, this past June. The assignment was: “Write a poem about a person, or people.” No...
View ArticleEveryone’s Books: For Social Change and the Earth – A Bookstore*
Everyone’s Books bookstore, located in Brattleboro, Vermont. Photo taken by…me. December 2012Everyone’s Books: 25 Elliot St. Brattleboro, VT. 05301. (802) 254-8160. Happy New Year! Before the new year...
View ArticleIdeal Picture Books for the K2 Classroom
So this year, I will be teaching Kindergarten in an Inclusion setting, rather than first grade. I’ve taught K2 before so I’m cool with it. I will miss guiding students in the persuasive essay process...
View ArticleBlack History Taught in September & The 50th Anniversary of ‘I Have a Dream’
Illustration by Kadir Nelson 2012 As we embark on the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s delivery of his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, and march again to Washington, on August 24th,...
View Article1st Graders deciphering Langston’s Train Ride
Langston’s Train Rideby Robert Burleigh.Illustrated by Leonard Jenkins I look forward to more conversations like these, but closer to June…when my Kindergarten crew is developed and ready. Happy school...
View ArticleK2 Read Alouds: Week 10: Eboné Tales
Week of November 18-22. Monday We had a field trip to the Boston Nature Center & Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday. One of our activities was to paint a mural on recycled paper, using bits of nature to...
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