Hello Parents!
I've changed the name of our poetry reading from coffee house to cider house since cider is what we'll drink!
I hope many of you will come out and listen to our children read their original works. I took three of their poems to my book club last Friday night (poetry was the subject of the evening), and the members were amazed at the depth and wisdom in the students' poems.
We visited Politics and Prose today, braving light rain to walk there. We listened to Linda Urban speak about her life as a writer starting from first grade when she wrote her first poem. She inspired us! We all pledged to take up her assignment to write down something we are burning to do with our lives and pretend it has already happened. The idea is to put this paper behind a magic mirror or alarm clock or some object we see first thing in the morning and last before bedtime and grow into becoming that thing we most burn to be.
My hand was raised in the pledge as well!
Homework
Study for tomorrow morning's grammar quiz.
Work on recycling books or write a discussion question from The Kid Who Ran For President depending on which group you're in.
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