Challenge your 6th graders to tackle free verse? Bring out the acrostics for your 3rd grade class? Take a breath! Our teacher team has compiled a list of some of the best poetry types for teaching kids how to write a poem. 1. Rhyming Poems ...
Building on the success of her apple project, Silverman then designed thePumpkin Patch Project. See how she "carved" a niche for second graders on the Internet and made it possible for kids and teachers to get connected! Enter the pumpkin patch! Considering the success of this apple project,...
Thank you so much for visiting our 2nd grade students at Bull Run Elementary School. Our students absolutely loved your presentation. You were so engaging and kept their interest the entire time. Our students have been even more passionate about writing poetry since you came. They are regular v...
Far from enjoying the schadenfreude of this moment, I cringed at seeing his humiliation. I was disillusioned to realize that an older boy could be so easily broken. I had thought that second graders were made of stiffer stuff. It seemed as if the dark side of the grass always being greene...
It is the last class of the day & I am teaching a classroom of sixth graders about poetry & across town a man has walked into a Starbucks & blown himself up while some other men throw grenades in the street & shoot into the crowd of civilians & I am 27 years old which means I am...
Certainly in the 1940s and perhaps in later decades, first-graders all over America were taught an "activity" based on a song called "The Farmer in the Dell." Older readers of this blague, if they are courageous enough to delve into long-forgotten and repressed pockets of the past, might...
for everything and nothing any busted clock could have told the tale of how I was out of time before I ever began of how I would, without doubt, be swept from the decks of the good ship of memory, into the raging sea it has always been a given, ...