tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post7171673584726850100..comments2024-03-28T12:01:31.049-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: THIRD GRADE POETRYJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-81989547610323733752018-10-18T17:03:58.888-04:002018-10-18T17:03:58.888-04:00what fun, Gloria! I wish you'd been my third g...what fun, Gloria! I wish you'd been my third grade teacher.Margaret S. Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07979191318652199350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-29896735810539319502018-10-18T16:58:22.831-04:002018-10-18T16:58:22.831-04:00Shari, I had as much fun as they did. I like your...Shari, I had as much fun as they did. I like your husband's poem. It shows he already knew what he wanted to be when he grew up. My first grade teacher asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. I said mother and teacher, and that's what I was; a mother first and then a teacher when I went to college a year after my oldest son died. What did you want to grow up to be when you were a kid?Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-19968006325233359482018-10-18T16:31:42.701-04:002018-10-18T16:31:42.701-04:00How lucky your students were - all your activities...How lucky your students were - all your activities sound like so much fun. We never did much poetry when I was in school, which is too bad. I think kids really respond to it.<br />I liked your point that many of your students pursued careers in what they had liked when they were young. When my husband was little he wrote a poem:<br /><br />I put on my coat<br />And go in my boat.<br /><br />Years later he was a Coast Guard officer and he still is out on a boat very day. From little acorns big trees grow, for sure!Shari Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425493627354028820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-2550868336929130002018-10-18T15:42:05.394-04:002018-10-18T15:42:05.394-04:00KM, that was a horrible amount of students. It see...KM, that was a horrible amount of students. It seems to me they should have divided the classes up with at least three different teachers. We had two third grades so that's why I didn't have as many children as I would have had if I were the only teacher. Actually, one of my students after we had studied early settlers in our country went on to work for a Virginia early settlers town as one of the settlers. I went there once and can't remember the name right now, but it was before he had graduated and got a job there. I know when I was invited to graduation parties for some of my students after they graduated that they had plans to go to college and pursue a career in what they had liked in school.<br /><br />Kait, that is so funny. At least it rhymed. :-)<br /><br />Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-27368268504879432532018-10-18T11:09:28.636-04:002018-10-18T11:09:28.636-04:00How delightful! Yes, we wrote poetry in school whe...How delightful! Yes, we wrote poetry in school when I was a child. I still remember my first - Pop, Pop, Pop, here comes a cop. I guess I was destined to write mysteries!Kaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07758348842858993203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-16906545623928268332018-10-18T10:46:24.230-04:002018-10-18T10:46:24.230-04:00What a fun project! I bet the kids loved it.
It&#...What a fun project! I bet the kids loved it.<br /><br />It's also a testimony to reasonably sized classes. When I taught fifth grade in Baltimore City Public Schools (special education) the regular education fifth grade classes had between 48 and 50 kids each. Not much time for each student to get that kind of attention, or for the teacher to be able to listen to 50 recitals of a poem.<br /><br />Your students were lucky to have you, and I bet you influenced a lot of lives.KM Rockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973749764907859829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-46726980861481897182018-10-18T09:21:54.448-04:002018-10-18T09:21:54.448-04:00Tina, that is so funny. I love it.
E.B. I'd l...Tina, that is so funny. I love it.<br /><br />E.B. I'd love to read some of your poetry.<br /><br />Laura, there was always at least one or two students in my class who were very<br />popular and a few others who were kind of out of the loop, shy and somewhat<br />isolated. One in particular who I remember was a minister's son. He wandered<br />around the playground on his own sometimes waving something. And of course,<br />there were always those from poor families who were poorly dressed and not<br />very clean.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-18933004461270811142018-10-18T09:11:30.218-04:002018-10-18T09:11:30.218-04:00I love the idea you used to seat people and let th...I love the idea you used to seat people and let the students choose one name. THEN you said if they didn't get their selected person, they should know somebody selected them. SO SWEET! -- LauraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-44423777105912987962018-10-18T09:08:28.290-04:002018-10-18T09:08:28.290-04:00LOL, Tina. I wrote poetry as a child, but I also r...LOL, Tina. I wrote poetry as a child, but I also remember being frustrated by it because I knew something wasn't correct about it, having read poems. I only write it now when a script calls for it and then I try to make it humorous as to not embarrass myself!E. B. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746747050278597888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-14794004020329664202018-10-18T08:23:50.300-04:002018-10-18T08:23:50.300-04:00My mother still has the poetry book I wrote in thi...My mother still has the poetry book I wrote in third grade. The gem of the collection (which was illustrated, of course) went along the lines of:<br /><br />If you eat goat grass<br />You'll feel like an ass<br />Because your mouth will be sour<br />For more than an hour.<br /><br />And I assure you, I used "ass" in the Biblical sense, as in, a donkey. But my mother still cracked up anyway.<br />Tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05843235860651070479noreply@blogger.com