Ms.+Eiteljorg

=Ms. Eiteljorg's Biographical Information= I teach 5th grade. Here I am in school with my new haircut. I live close enough to school to walk home and I can walk to my parents' house. Sometimes my mom or day picks me up at school, just like they did decades ago.

I love teaching, but I do not live at school. I go home every night to my husband and 2 kids. Here I am with my kids on the couch before I rearranged the living room. As you can see, we have a lot of books and piles at home too.

I have to admit that I do not write much poetry except at this time of year when I write it with my class. Every year I try to write poems about Emma and Wyatt so it is like a little time capsule of them each year. I suppose I could write about something different each year, but since they grow up a some each year, it is like they are different, but the same too.

Each year I also try to write poems that are in a different format or that are modeled after other poems I have read. I never feel bad about "copying" another poem or using it as a model. I feel like this is how I will get better at writing poems.

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