Poems are like windows

Tuesday, April 22nd was Poem in Your Pocket Day.  This a day LREI’s Literary Committee invites families to stay at home and read a poem or book together.  All day long, you could stop anyone (child or adult) and ask if they had a poem in their pocket and if so ask them to read it on the spot.  Some chose a poem by a favorite author, other’s wrote their own poems.  One child even brought a poem that her fourth grade brother wrote when he was in second grade.

I heard all kinds of poems on Tuesday – silly poems and serious poems, long poems and short poems, sad poems and thoughtful peoms.  Children enthusiastically shared with each other throughout the day.  While I knew children would delight in being stopped in the halls and asked to read the poem in their pockets, I wasn’t so sure about the adults in our community.  Just to test the waters I asked a some teachers if they had brought a poem to school.  All said yes and I found out one of my colleague’s favorit poem was my favorite poem, too!

Poem in Your Pocket Day is one way to help us to get to know each other better (our poem selections give others a window into the unique parts of ourselves) and allows us to take a moment to appreciate literature in a fun way.  Put a poem in your pocket and every once in a while pull it out and share yourself with someone else.
Here’s wonderful poem a first grader shared with me:

You And I  by Mary Ann Hoberman

Only one I in the whole wide world
And millions and millions of you,
But every you is an I to itself
And I am a you to you, too!

But if I am a you and you are an I
And the opposite also is true,
It makes us both the same somehow
Yet splits us each in two

It’s more and more mysterious,
The more I think it through:

Every you everywhere in the world is an I;
Every I in the world is a you!

Best,

Sharon

 

Please view our on-line Lower School gallery for great photo’s of recent events: http://lrei.org/photos/0708/ls.

 

WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Lower School Librarian Stacy Dillon has been selected to speak at the ALA Pre-conference at the Diversity Leadership Institute in Anaheim on the topic of integrating diversity into library practice. The greater library community is beginning to see the importance of diversity in practice as well as collections. Stacy is able to provide a unique perspective to the discussion, as few other school librarians are as immersed in topics of diversity as we are at LREI. Congratulations, Stacy!

 

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Glass Menagerie and Friends – A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT DECORMIER
Sunday, May 4th at 3:00PM
St. Joseph’s Church – 6th Avenue and Washington Place (2 blocks below 8th St.)
Tickets: $20 ($15 students/seniors) for tickets: gmenagerie@yahoo.com

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From HS Principal Ruth Jurgensen:

0424-ArtActionRuth

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PARENT MEETINGS & EVENTS

  • Wednesday, April 30- 8:45AM: 4s and EK Assembly
  • Thursday, May 1: Big Auction
  • Friday, May 2: Afterschool’s First Friday
  • Wednesday, May 7 – 8:45AM: Kindergarten Assembly
  • Friday, May 9: Grandparents & Special Friends Visiting Day
  • Friday, May 9 – 7PM: MS Musical
  • Saturday, May 10 – 2PM, 7PM: MS Musical
  • For an up-to-date, searchable all school calendar, please visit lrei.org/calendar

 

LOWER SCHOOL NOTES & ATTACHMENTS

  • First grade: Please click here (0424-JB-letter) for a letter from Jamie & Bonnie.
  • All grades: Please click here (0424-PA meeting minutes) for meeting minutes from the April 17 Parent Rep meeting.
  • All grades: Please click here for the calendar for the 2008-09 school year.

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