A Year of Reading

Inside the month I found the challenge. Inside the challenge I found the discipline. Inside the discipline I found the joy. Inside the joy I...

Franki sent a link to this book trailer and challenged me to try writing a Newspaper Blackout Poem. Every poem-a-day writer needs a cheerlea...

by Mary Lee Hahn, copyright 2010

You've written a poem a day! Every day you found something to say in a poem or verse, for better or worse. To each of you: HIP HIP HOORA...

Like I've said many times, the kids in our library love any book about dogs. So, I had to get NAME THAT DOG: PUPPY POEMS FROM A-Z when...

You are the King Ingumpa* of the Fib Poem Form: Royal Ingumpa, indeed! by Mary Lee Hahn, copyright 2010 *A word verification nonsense "...

Dedicated to Franki (and with apologies to David R. Slavitt ) by Mary Lee Hahn, copyright 2010 Balance. Discussion Questions: 1. What is thi...

I introduced GarageBand this week. It is mostly music creation software but has so many possibilities for elementary school. I started ou...

When at the coffee shop we both do sit and sip dark roast or other blended drink we open books and read for just a bit which turns into an h...

WHERE I'M FROM I'm from the smell of chlorine and the heat of sun-baked cement by the pool. I'm from cherry tomatoes...