I am entertaining guests this weekend. I may post later. I do want to share that I had a special visitor to my blog on Friday, J. Patrick Lewis, 2012-2013 Children’s Poet Laureate. He watched the Emaze presentation I made about him and the zeno poems my students and I wrote. This was his email.
Dear Margaret,
A swashbuckler of a bow to you for featuring the zeno on your blog and for encouraging your students to try their hand at it. I’m honored and humbled, and I must say, extremely impressed by their efforts. Please extend to them my warm wishes for a blootitootiful school year.
Be good, be well.
Cheers,
Pat
So I did a happy dance.







Wow, Margaret – you are EMAZing! 🙂 I missed Poetry Friday, so I needed to go back and read up on that. What a cool poetry form! I’m going to try it with my students!! It’s always a thrill when an author stops by your blog and takes a look at what you’re doing in your classroom. How wonderful for you and your students. 🙂
Wonderful, Margaret, I think he should be impressed. The poems were great!
Fabulous that J. Patrick Lewis stopped by to comment. I agree that the children’s work was wonderful. They really got the format down. I would like to try that but my computer with the work saved just went down. Once again I am behind in my writing.