{"id":835,"date":"2009-10-10T23:47:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T04:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2009-10-11T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T15:53:08","slug":"shreyas-blog-new-sci-pos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2009\/10\/10\/shreyas-blog-new-sci-pos\/","title":{"rendered":"Shreya’s blog, new Sci-Po’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shreya, my daughter has a blog, Uniquely Mine<\/a>. An RSS feed from her blog can be found right here (just scroll down and see the right column). Anyway, over the past few weeks she has been doing something for extra credit for the science class. Her fifth-grade teacher has asked all students to find stories related to science in the newspaper, create a short writeup about it to share with the other children. I asked her to add another layer of challenge to that. Once she has her report all typed up, she needs to write a short poem about it and post it to her blog. <\/p>\n

I asked her to do this partly because I was concerned that she would not be able to keep up her blog once school started. As most people she was very excited to have a blog and wrote a bunch of stuff for it in the beginning. Then life began to take over and her postings grew few and far in between. What was needed, I figured, was a way to keep her writing regularly. So this idea of piggybacking on something she was already doing. The poems she writes are often short and it didn’t seem like much of an imposition to ask her to write little poems based on the science articles she has been finding for her school report. <\/p>\n

Well, so far so good. She has a quite a bit of writing (mostly poems) in a genre we have decided to call Sci-Po<\/strong> a.k.a. Scientific Poems! (It’s a obvious ripp-off on the term Sci-Fi). It has also been a lot of fun. <\/p>\n

When we first set up the blog, I advised her to not allow commenting. I was not sure what kinds of comments she would generate and it just seemed as if we were asking for trouble (especially exposing a 10 year old to the kind of junk that is prevalent on the Internet). However, after much consideration we finally decided to open up her site and allow people to comment. So if you read this blog, click over to her site and drop her a note. Please, remember this is a 10 year old so be polite \ud83d\ude42 Of course all comments are moderated so I still hope to protect her from some of the nastier aspects of the world (not that I can do that forever but at least I can try). <\/p>\n

Anyway, check out her writing<\/a>. I think you will like it. Here is my favorite. It is a non-sense poem (not a Sci-Po but fun none-the-less) titled, Salt’n Pepa in Santa Fe<\/a>. Here is is: <\/p>\n

Salt’n Pepa in Santa Fe<\/strong>
\nby Shreya Mishra<\/em><\/p>\n

Squigles-squagles, pinchley pooh
\nSlip’n sliding on my shoe
\nDimpo-doby dorkly dake
\nGently eat the slice of cake
\nShickly-bumbly rabbity-red
\nBack at home, tucked in bed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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