Learning Far and Near

This digital story was a poem written by a Fultondale Elementary student, Sean.  It was inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's  The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.  It is dedicated to our Oakwood Elementary School E-pals.

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Learning Far and Near

   Listen my children and you shall hear,

 Of the learning time from far and near,

 On the twenty-ninth of May in 09,

 Every digital citizen is still alive,

 Who remembers the famous project we did,

 We said to the world “Joy, Joy we,

 Have done every thing alive. Like digital stories,

Wikis, Jing, READ posters, scanner colleges,

 Tech and writing projects, more, more, and more.”

Our communications both back and forth

Travelled across from our Alabama school

 Digitally riding to the Peoria Bay

Right when the sun,

 Rose over the day where our writing,

 And ideas you never said “Nay.”

 The writer’s block never came,

 As we wrote to you for ever more,

 A worldly collaboration with each letter,

 Across the sky like a rainbow,

 And a huge experience that was magnified

By flattening of classroom walls in our stride,

 While everyone went through the valley of learning from another,

 And we stayed on track and never,

 Missed an opportunity to teach or learn.

Others wonder how we do it

But it takes lots of effort with us two,

 We worked together in a quest for the best.

 That’s why we say unto you thanks,

For a year that will stand out as the best!

--By FES Student: SPJ

 (inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Midnight Ride of Paul Revere)