Wednesday, May 11, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters students celebrate poetry
By Erin Borla
Correspondent
Sisters Elementary School
recently celebrated National
Poetry Month with a “Poetry-
Palooza.” Throughout the
morning all students from
grades kindergarten through
fourth grade, including the
Sisters Park & Recreation
District preschool, moved
from classroom to classroom
and experienced different
interactive workshops all
around the theme of poetry.
Each class was able to
participate in seven sessions
taught by teachers, commu-
nity members and parents,
including read-aloud poetry,
puppets, being mindful, chalk
poems and more.
Local volunteers includ-
ing Paige Bentley-Flannery,
the librarian at the Sisters
branch of the Deschutes
Public Library, Katie Diez
from High Desert ESD, par-
ents Catherine Griffin, Haley
Ellis, Lucie Pronold and
Kelley Moen, retired teacher
Mrs. Kamrath and current
middle school teacher Becky
Aylor helped direct the differ-
ent workshops.
“Our staff really thought
outside the box to come up
with this unique way to cele-
brate National Poetry Month,”
said Becky Stoughton, prin-
cipal at Sisters Elementary
School.
Reading specialist
Stephanie Jensen worked on
coordinating staff and volun-
teers to make the event hap-
pen during the school day.
Parents who had been cleared
to volunteer within the school
were invited to attend and
participate with students.
“This really came together
well,” Jensen said. “The wide
variety of workshops helped
our kids enjoy and learn about
photo by erin borla
Celebrating Poetry-Palooza at Sisters Elementary School.
poetry. The community vol-
unteers and the parents helped
to make it happen.”
Many of the students
agreed one of the favorite
workshops used puppets and
was taught by Sisters Middle
School language arts teacher
Becky Aylor. She taught a
brief lesson using her five
crates of hand and rod pup-
pets. Students got an oppor-
tunity to be in a puppet show
and sing along with members
of the audience in a rousing
round of Mary Had A Little
Lamb.
“I related the puppets to
emotion and expression,”
Aylor said. “The same with
poems. Poems are a reflection
of culture — everyone has a
story to tell.”
Students were origi-
nally going to draw poems
on the school sidewalks
with chalk during one of the
workshops — but when the
weather turned colder and
threatened rain the volun-
teers had to change the idea
quickly. Students were able
to draft their chalk poems on
long black pieces of butcher
paper in the gym. The paper
“sidewalks” were then put
up throughout the school for
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Not all sessions were
focused on poetry specific
lessons. Other workshops
allowed students to move
and listen to their body, to be
mindful of things around them
in order to have better focus.
SES parent Catherine Griffin
led a workshop on “mind-
fulness” for the students.
Throughout each session she
read a story called Lemonade
Hurricane, about meditation
and listening to your body,
and then had some interactive
activities where the students
were able to move about.
“We talked about paying
attention to what’s going on
inside and outside your body,”
she said. “We took deep
breaths and focused. Being
mindful of everything around
you can help you focus —
sports, walking, writing, art;
anything can be a lesson in
mindfulness.”
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