Classmates and family members gathered last week in Grade 2 to enjoy a wonderful poetry reading. Each girl read a poem she had written, then everyone sipped hot chocolate and read more student work.
Below is an example of one poem that was shared by Carine:
Leaves
The leaves
Rustle,
In the night.
In the morning,
The wind
Whispering,
To them,
The leaves,
Rustle back.
Leaves, Rustle
Wind, Whispers
I am big and strong
I hold up the snow
Up Up Up
I provide water
Growing crops
Helping California
I smell fresh
The mist blowing overhead
I am the princess of the sky
My tips pointed up
I am still
Solid stone
I am thunder
Water trickling down me
I am nature’s wonderland
Full of beautiful plants
I have great big
Snowpacks
I am born
Of rocks
I am Sierra
-Leah
Grade 7 students are writing American History-themed poems in their Social Studies class. As a warm up activity girls wrote a free write with the prompt, Poetry is. In less than five minutes Emily M. wrote the above poem.