A Few Crooked Words
Category Archives: Exercises
Translation with Nine Year Olds
I’ve been doing poems using words in Spanish or French with my students for several years, and have been trying to figure out a way to do our own translations. They love working with words in other languages, but it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Frog Hollow School, Homeschooling, Seattle, teaching poetry, Teaching writing, Translation
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Writing to Music
Once or twice a year, I bring my mp3 player into class, and we write to music. We write to things like Tchaikovsky, Bach, Buena Vista Social Club, Edith Piaf, fiddle tunes, Tuvan throat singing, and a seven year old’s … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom games, Creativity, Education, Homeschooling, Seattle, Teaching writing, Writing, writing games
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James Bond and the Past Perfect: teaching grammar through poems
As I was organizing things for the first class of the year yesterday, I found a gem from the archives. We had been learning about the past perfect tense and how weird it is to try to write in it … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Creativity, Education, Grammar, Homeschooling, poetry, Seattle, teaching poetry
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The Homonym List
Writing about puns got me thinking about homonyms, which made me think of The Homonym List. My little sister was a math kid. She used to put pictures of the math books she had finished in the photo cover of her school … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Education, Homeschooling, homonyms, Language, Seattle, Teaching, Teaching writing, vocabulary, wordplay
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