THE LAST FIFTH GRADE OF EMERSON ELEMENTARY

THE LAST FIFTH GRADE OF EMERSON ELEMENTARY
April 12, 2016

Friday, January 2, 2009

It's Poetry Friday!

We spent New Year's Eve at St. Petersburg's First Night family celebration. NinjaGirl and I danced by the DJ stage, DJRobMan kicked some kid's butt at the Guitar Hero tent (making friends in the process -- they went off to try the moon-bounce boxing ring). The kids took their grandparents through a labrynth marked by kid-decorated paper bag lanterns. It was great! One of our favorite things was the heart-pumping Mt. Zion Progressive Drumline. The drummers reminded me of Nikki Giovanni's metaphor poem, "The Drum": The drum daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him Read what she told "daddy" (it's good starting the year right advice) here. Join in the first Poetry Friday of 2009 at A Year of Reading.