Cat and Wall
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Cat Drawing in Restaurant
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Cat Behind a Grate
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Two Cats in a Shoe Store
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Cat in The Grand Bazaar
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Gli, the Famous Cat of Hagia Sofia
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Cat Houses
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Cat in a Dress Shop
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I will share a recording as soon as my computer allows...
Students - This week I have been teaching at the Enka Primary School in Istanbul, Turkey. It was a delightful visit including assemblies, writing workshops, reading and puppet times with preschool and kindergarten classrooms, a teacher workshop, and a parent workshop. And as I have been traveling with my author friends Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger, we did a bit of sightseeing too.
We saw many cats!
The city of Istanbul is home to thousands of street cats. People feed and give water to these cats, and there are many little cat houses tucked into nooks and corners as you see above. We saw cats of all colors, and I wrote this poem to share with the children at the school. As these students speak both Turkish and English, I typed the text in two colors so that the repeated words would be easy to distinguish.
This is a list poem with a twist ending, and there is a lot of repetition. In some of the preschool and kindergarten classrooms I visited yesterday, we wrote list poems together too.
Our lives are full of things to see, things we pass every day. We can write about all of them. And so, too, can we write about the new surprises that travel brings our way.
Thank you to Sule and George and Weston and all of the wonderful people who welcomed me so warmly to Enka School. It was a pleasure to write with you!
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