Sketch
Photo by Amy LV
Students - Throughout this spring, I have been fortunate to spend time drawing and writing with young people. I have read and heard that to truly see something, a person must slow down. I have learned that by drawing an object, you come to understand it in a new way. I discovered this again this spring.
When you draw something, in a way, you become this thing. I adore John Moffitt's poem To Look at Any Thing, a poem about becoming, about slowing down.
If you wish to get to know an object, try drawing it first. Then write. Visit The Private Eye, one of my favorite learning sites, to discover more.
In other pinecone news, we just lost a very tall spruce at The Poem Farm. It broke and Mark cut it and then it fell.
Fallen Spruce
Photo by Amy LV
Now I am harvesting pinecones. Many to smell, many to draw, many to use for crafts. If you have any fabulous pinecone craft ideas, please leave them in the comments. I want to make pinecone goodnesses WITH MY HANDS.
Over at my other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks, I could not feel more fortunate to host the sixth grade notebookers of Michelle Haseltine's class for the first ever notebooks blog takeover! Every single day of May, a new student or pair or group of students will share tips and ideas for notebooking. Please stop by for inspiration and writing ideas! And leave a comment. Someone will win a cool new notebook each Friday!
Brenda is hosting today's Poetry Friday roundup at Friendly Fairy Tales. Each week we gather together, sharing poems, books, and poetry ideas all at one blog. All are always welcome to visit, comment, and post!
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