Poetry

Some of my students wrote poetry. See if you can pick out the words that rhyme. Although some of my students wrote poems without rhyming words. It was fun to assign this because they were asked to read a few of Shel Silverstein's poems before writing their own. Here's what they came up with:

Poem #1: The Snap Trap
I set up a trap one night.
And the next night at midnight I heard it snap.
I went to check it and it was a little baby racoon.
I set her free.
Be gone little baby.

Poem #2:
The rose has gone far away.
The flower goes very very far away.

Poem #3: The Doctor Then Soccer
I want to go to the doctor
then go to soccer.
The doctor is fun,
than plain old soccer.
Soccer is way too boring.
The doctor is so much fun.

Poem #4: 
I pet my mouse in the house.
The dog hogs the food.
I see the cake baking.
I eat a pie with a sigh.
The cook reads the book.

Poem #5:
I see a snake eating cake.
I hear a pie cry.
I see a cake bake.
I see a duck stuck.

Poem #6:
My shoelace was tied.
I promise that I did not lie.
My shoe would not tie, but I will try.

Poem #7: 
I will play with you
Play with me too.
We can play with my shoe.
It will be fun!
Let's go run!

Poem #8: The Petting Zoo
There is a petting zoo.
Not the kind of petting zoo with pigs and chickens.
The kind with bats and bears.
The boys were zesty and zealous.
The girls were not.


Pretty fantastic poems, don't you agree?! You may wonder how they found some of the vocabulary that they used in their poems. I asked them to pick out one or two words from another poem that they read to use in their own. It was a great way to give them some indirect vocabulary instruction. The student that wrote poem #8 really challenged himself by picking out the words "zest" and "zeal". I helped him to understand what they mean. Down to my final three weeks with them... I can hardly believe it!