On this episode we sail our sieve to the land of POETRY! Rosemarie Dombrowski, poet laureate for Phoenix, celebrated National Poetry Month by writing two special poems for Buttons & Figs! Rosemarie shares her poem “Why I Want to Be a Lizard.” The 3rd graders at Camelview Elementary School play with the poetry prompt “Why I Want to Be….,” creating original wordplay poems of their own. Enjoy the writing and voices of the students in Ms. Cowen’s class and Ms. Stiles class. Poetry everyday, we say! www.buttonsandfigs.com

On this episode we sail our sieve back to the land of POETRY! Rosemarie Dombrowski, poet laureate for Phoenix, celebrated National Poetry Month by writing two special poems for Buttons & Figs! Rosemarie reads her poem “Cat Lady.” The 3rd graders at Camelview Elementary School play with nouns from 5 famous poets, including Rosemarie Dombrowski, Edward Lear, Dennis Lee, Calef Brown and Carl Sandburg,

creating original wordplay sentences & poems of their own. Enjoy the creativity & voices of the students in Ms. Lisa Petrauschke’s class and Ms. Perkins class. Poetry everyday, we say! www.buttonsandfigs.com

extra! extra! we have a bit of improv play for you today! on this episode, these Buttons & Figs kids share and play two improv games. we hope you’ll play along. be sure to share your way to play at 623-282-4080. we say, play is the way! www.buttonsandfigs.com

extra! extra! here is the FULL (lightly edited) version of our improv play! hear all of the craziness of these Buttons & Figs kids as they played improv on an open mic! we hope you’ll play along. be sure to share your way to play at 623-282-4080. At Buttons & Figs, we say, play is the way!

On this episode we set sail to the cave of repetition, repetition, repetition. You’ll hear many, many, many ways to play with this literary device with original stories from our Buttons & Figs kids. We were inspired by Julian Sheer’s book, Rain Makes Applesauce, and several of Dr. Seuss’s books too. We hope you’ll listen, listen, listen and play, play, play. Visit ButtonsandFigs.com for more wordplay fun.