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Friday, September 28, 2012

Poetry Friday - Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny

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This week's poetry stretch was to write about school supplies. Folks contributed some really wonderful  poems. You can read the results ...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - School Supplies

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There's nothing better then getting poetry in your inbox on a daily basis. So, given my love for all things school-related, I was parti...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - Photographs

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I've been having trouble wrapping my head around a new challenge, as I'm still having fun thinking about last week's stretch, ...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Nonfiction Monday - Planting the Wild Garden

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I've seen a number of books over the years about how seeds move from one place to another.  PLANTING THE WILD GARDEN , written by Kat...

Monday Poetry Stretch - Homophoem

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It's always a pleasure to receive an e-mail from our Children's Poet Laureate, J. Patrick Lewis, especially when he's writing ...
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Friday, September 07, 2012

Poetry Friday - Humdrum

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This week's poetry stretch was to write a Nonet. A nonet is a nine line poem where each line contains a decreasing number of syllables,...
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Monday, September 03, 2012

Nonfiction Monday - Bugs By the Numbers

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BUGS BY THE NUMBERS , written and illustrated by Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss, is a book I have a love/hate relationship with. Let's...
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Monday Poetry Stretch - The Nonet

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I've been spending time researching forms I haven't tried before. I'm actually pleased with how many new ones (new to me, at le...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Poetry Friday - Assorted Bits and School Buses

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Happy poetry Friday all! I have some odds and ends and an old favorite to share today. This week's poetry stretch was to write a La...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Nonfiction Monday - Potatoes on Rooftops

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I grew up in western NY surrounded by dairy farms. Even today the house I grew up in is surrounded largely by fields and not the kind of...
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Monday Poetry Stretch - Lai

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The Lai is a French syllabic verse form consisting of one or more stanza of nine lines with two rhymes, though the rhyme can vary from stan...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Poetry Friday - Edgar Allan Poe's Pie

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  I'm a sucker for math poetry, love parodies, and am a J. Patrick Lewis fangirl, so it should come as no surprise that the book I ...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Nonfiction Monday - World Without Fish

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Last year I wrote a review of THE STORY OF SALT by Mark Kurlansky. I love Kurlansky's work in children's literature as he possesse...

Monday Poetry Stretch - Trimeric

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After a long hiatus, the Monday Poetry Stretch is back! I hope a few of you are still out there and ready to take on some new challenges an...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Science, Poetry, and Inspiration From Lowry

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I'm writing the syllabus for my science class right now and am finding a great deal of inspiration in this quote from Lois Lowry. A...
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Unpacking and Finding My Way Back...

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For most of the summer my office looked like this. All the while I tried to teach and keep my cool while working out of boxes and bags...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Where is Miss Rumphius?

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This question has a two part answer. Here is my office. Here is my computer. Broken Computer clipart from Clker.com It'...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - To Sleep

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Woohoo! This is me sliding the stretch in under the wire! I'm operating on about 4 hours of sleep, having spent 11 hours in the Philadel...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Tuesday is the New Monday for Poetry Stretching!

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I'm feeling as though the Monday poetry stretch should just be renamed the Tuesday poetry stretch! Monday has become the enemy. I can...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - Epistle

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I've been cleaning house and found a stack of old letters my mother sent me. It seems no one writes letters anymore. My mother claims s...
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