The Sunrise Story

Each week on Saturday  bloggers celebrate at  Ruth Ayres Writes .  Won't you join us?  The end of the school year feels like it's fast approaching and out of reach simultaneously! I have adrenaline spurts and immediately feel like I need to sleep for a week. Being in the moment is almost impossible...but I'm trying. Stopping and reflecting and celebrating like this helps a lot! Personally I'm celebrating my endurance and follow through with getting the gas leak fixed in my house. Thing like this send a single girl like me for a loop! My usual response is to ignore the problem until I can't anymore. (I know, that's terrible...but it's the truth!) This time I called and called and insisted...I yelled a bit, I confess I cried out of frustration and exhaustion...but the bottom line: IT'S FIXED! Whew! I take that as a compliment. I'm celebrating sixth grade poets! Poet Palooza is a celebration of our poetry writing. Jessica O'Brien  ...

Slice of Life Challenge Please join the challenge over at  Two Writing Teachers ! In class, we have been writing poetry for weeks. Poems about our friends, our dogs, school, bullying, cooking, guinea pigs...everything! Hearing their thoughts pouring out through their poetry inspires me.  We decided that our poetry is too good to keep to ourselves, so this Friday we are celebrating our original poetry with a performance called Poet Palooza! My classes will combine with another sixth grade and perform our original poems. We have individual poets performing, and partners and groups. The rehearsals have been going on for days and the excitement and anticipation builds everyday. Parents are invited.  Poet Palooza will take place in the library. We are working on many different kinds of poetry to decorate our space too. We have a graffiti wall for poems we want to share, but don't want to perform. We have dozens of examples of black out poetry. We used ...