Class Poem

Today our class finished writing a poem about summer (since we are studying about seasons and weather).  Earlier we had brainstormed words and phrases about summer - after a very hot day at recess.  Today we added new ideas and then rearranged them to make a "found poem".  We put ideas together that sounded good and made sense.  We also used our strategy to reread and see if it made sense, looked right, and sounded right.  Here is the final version the class came up with:

Summer

by Ms. Norwood's class

summer

hot weather

yellow sun

red faces

hot enough to burn the playground

hot enough to melt the playground

100 degrees

feels like 1,000 degrees

hot

super-duper hot

melts ice

could melt the whole world

hot enough to grill you

could melt you

wet hair

hot, sweaty hair

sweaty foreheads

fire

hot slide that burns you

have to jump around if you don't have shoes on

bare feet get burned

solar energy

hot enough to toast a marshmallow

hot enough to make you catch on fire

summer