CREATIVE ARTS & SCIENCES 

Poet and Autor Lyn Littlefield Hoopes—February 28th & March 2nd

Creative Arts and Sciences Welcomes

Lyn Littlefield Hoopes

(4th Grade)

Explore the power of metaphor, rhythm, voice, and pattern in writing poetry. Lyn Littlefield Hoopes will help students develop strategies for writing poetry through imagination, listening for voice, creating similes, and using the five senses, vivid verbs, and breaking lines. Lyn emphasizes the joy of creating as she teaches a unique, simple, and original technique for charting each phrase of a poem. Often she creates a collaborative poem with the class, demonstrating how to discover its rhythms and patterns.

For 4th Grade

Feb 28th

8:45-9:15 Cafetorium

9:20-10:30 Ms Tice's class

10:30-11:40 Ms Bapat's class

12:30-1:40 Ms Li's class

1:40-2:50 Ms Bordman's class

March 2nd

9:00-10:15 Ms Tice's class

10:15-11:30 Ms Bordman's class

12:20-1:35 Ms Li's class

1:35-2:50 Ms Bapat's class

Join us! Parents are encouraged to attend, but no younger siblings, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

This program was fully funded by your generous donations to the Burr PTO and the Burr Wolf Fund. To donate, go to Burr PTO.org and click on "Donate."