{"id":1749,"date":"2008-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1749"},"modified":"2008-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"on-the-street-where-you-live-an-international-poetry-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/on-the-street-where-you-live-an-international-poetry-project\/","title":{"rendered":"On the street where you live &#8211; An International Poetry Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/kennesaw\/index.php\" title=\"On the street where you live - An International Poetry Project\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/images\/on_the_Street.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"359\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just created a new blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/kennesaw\/index.php\">On the street where you live &#8211; An International Poetry Project<\/a> for a new collaboration between sandaig and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmwp.org\/files\/generalFiles\/File\/Writing%20Camp%2008\/KMWP%20Summer%20Writing%20Camp%20website.htm\">Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project<\/a>. The blog will be active from the 9th to the 13th of June.<br  \/>The idea is that children\/students from both groups will be writing poems about the street where they live and hopefully offering support to each other by using 2 stars and a wish to assess the work.<\/p>\n<p>The project came about due to the involvement in the writing camp by my good friend Carol Fuller from Georgia, whom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=1802&amp;w=john_johnston#comm\" title=\"John @ Sandaig Primary&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Georgia on my Mind\">I visited in February<\/a>. Hopefully we will get some interesting work\/play from the participants. As well as a distance gap there is a bit of an age gap the US students being older than my 10 year olds, I am hoping that my kids get a feeling of pride working with older children and the US students a sense of mentoring the Sandaig Poets.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the bit I like the best is the wee tweak I&#8217;ve give Sandaig blogs, typing &#40;star) produces a (star) and &#40;wish) a (wish), simple thing etc.<br  \/><strong>Please feel free to add comments on the children&#8217;s work  and join in the fun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just created a new blog On the street where you live &#8211; An International Poetry Project for a new collaboration between sandaig and Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project. 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