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Tuesday’s End

Tuesday’s school day ended with a group of students volunteering to read a selection of “Poems for Mindfulness” from my ‘book of the moment’, My Thoughts Are Clouds by Georgia Heard.

At the end of a hectic day, when Tuesday felt like Friday and students were bustling about, we replaced the Read Aloud of our chapter book with the reading of poems students selected.

The room was as quiet as dawn, each of the students found a comfortable space and listened intensely to their friends reading aloud, one of the poems, they selected from the book.

The atmosphere was peaceful, a huge contrast to minutes before they entered the class. I sat quietly soaking in the calm voices of my fifth grade readers.

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    Greg&Linda

    This is a good idea! I might use that one afternoon. Thank you for sharing! It will be interesting to see how tomorrow afternoon goes.

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    Radutti

    The room was as quiet as dawn, each of the students found a comfortable space and listened intensely to their friends reading aloud – I can see this in my mind, your words give it shape. I still find it hard to picture you teaching 5th grade though! ;0

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I am an Elementary school teacher , I taught at an International IB School in Accra, Ghana. I am now teaching in Hanoi. Writing is my passion and I try to write daily, at least in my sentence a day journal, to capture all the blessings around me. I write with groups of writers, such as Teach Write and sometimes Ethical ELA. I also encourage my friends to write , so I created a platform to make that possible -Writing Run.

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