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Sunday Solace: Week 5

1/30/2022

Poetry Friday, Week 4: This Morning and Winners

1/28/2022

It's our fourth Friday of the year. Wow!
Irene at Live Your Poem has the round up for us this week.

I like writing my posts on Thursday and posting early. Yesterday, I was coming up empty and went to bed without a post.

This morning gifted me with one as I was making tea

morning moon
side smile of wolf pup
sings the wind

©2022, jone rush macculloch

Calendar Winners

Congrats Mary Lee Hahn and Bridget Magee! Mary Lee, will send out today. Bridget, I need your address.

Wordless Wednesday: Week 4

1/26/2022

Sunday Solace: Week 4

1/23/2022

Poetry Friday, Week 3: Student Poetry

1/20/2022

. Happy Friday. Happy poetry. Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference. Tabatha shares a fabulous puzzle poem while rounding us all up.

Heidi from the Inklings suggested that we using the “The Lost Lagoon ” by Mohawk poet, Emily Pauline Johnson (d. 1913) “to build your own poem FOR CHILDREN about a treasured place that you return to again and again (geographical or metaphorical).”
#PoetryPals challenges us to write a poem inspired by something overheard.

Last Friday, I taught fifth grade. It was a day of eleven students (thank you, surge). These fifth graders were first graders the year I retired. After students write a draft, I have them meet with me to put on Padlet which is an opportunity for a mini-revision.

Enrique brought me his poem, saying he didn't think it very good. It was a perfect opportunity to share with him and the class my interaction with Janet Wong regarding my "Zoom" poem and how it was revised to what appears in the book. As teachers sharing our little moments of revisions in own writing helps students to see that revision is a part of the process.

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Wordless Wednesday: Week 3

1/19/2022

Sunday Solace: Week 3

1/16/2022

Poetry Friday, Week 2: Preparing to Teach a Lesson

1/14/2022

It's early Friday on the west coast. I am heading into a fifth grade classroom and get to teach poetry today.
Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading is hosting Poetry Friday. I am going to have to share her poem "What Does a Pomegranate Know" with my fifth graders today as I am using the prompt, "What Does a [your subject] Know?" I have been thinking of this prompt since reading an earlier version of Mary Lee's poem

>I've been thinking about this book of late. Joyce Sidman has a perfect mentor text,
"What Do Trees Know?

Michelle H. Barnes at Today's Little Ditty, interviewed her here and created a Deeper Thinking Poem Challenge.

In 2015, I wrote:
WHAT DOES THE RAIN KNOW?
   by Jone Rush MacCulloch

                              What does the rain know?
                                   Sponge clouds gathering moisture
       School children running between raindrops
   The pop-up gardens of umbrellas.

                              What does the rain know?
       The wind whispering secrets
       School children with open mouths catching raindrops
       The beginning and end of rainbows.

Today I will be sharing this poem, two ways to do it with students. I'll show them my notebook wonderings. One way focuses on the senses the other focuses on strong verbs. I hopefully will get to confer with students and revise with them as we load them to Padlet which I will share next week.