Poetry Month (or April as you may know it) has come and gone in a flash!  Here's a glimpse of how SES celebrated! Our poetry calenda...

This week we're reading poetry! Third grade will be reading Marilyn Singer's Mirror, Mirror . Here is the author reading fr...

As poetry month continues, SES students are participating in activities that have them reading, illustrating, and writing their own poems. ...

All month, Smithville Elementary will be celebrating poetry! Each day, a different teacher will read a poem over the announcements.  The p...

This week month in the library, it's National Poetry Month!  Check back this week and throughout April to find out about all kinds of g...

Today, Smithville Elementary students will be taking the NEA Read Across America Reader's Oath. We pledge to be life-long readers and t...

So, it's a day early, and I will, of course, share another Thought of the Day tomorrow, but I couldn't resist this line from one of ...

This week, third grade will be welcoming Autumn with The Stranger by Chris VanAllsburg.  When Farmer Bailey accidentally hits a strange man...

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer Fairytales written Up and down Back and front Characters good and bad Reversed ...

Amazing Faces by Lee Bennett Hopkins "The night is beautiful, so the faces of my people" says Langston Hughes in this multicu...

Here are some more great poems about different holidays. This time, from Mrs. S. Vinklarek's class! Easter by Sophie Easter eggs outs...

Mrs. Erwin's class wrote holiday poetry in the library today! Here are some great examples: Easter by Jannie Colorful, plastic Easter ...

April is National Poetry Month, so we'll be reading LOTS of poetry in the library this month! Looking for some great poetry to read? Ch...