Poetry and Earth Day

 Poetry

Another belated blog entry. Better late than never?

1. Poetry is very different from other types of writing. What was interesting about it?

• I liked that there werent any rules it was free - Jackson
• there are so many different types of poetry its a lot of fun to explore them all. - EF
• I liked that there wasn't a strict way to write. - Wynn

2. Together, we did a writing workshop to revise and put together parts of our poem into our Earth Day poem "Sometimes we feel like the earth and all it's creatures." What did you like about this?

• The workshop thing was cool because i got to listen to other peoples work and that was kinda cool. - CL

3. Explain why you chose the animal you chose to represent you.

• Why i choose a lion is because it gets angry and hungry hangry and it represent a few other things - Fatima

4. We all made art to represent our poems. What did you like about the art project?

• I liked the art we did with our poem because it showed our animal and what it is, it also gave a hint on what our poem is about. - GH

5. Why is Earth day important?

• Earth day reminds us about  what we have done to the earth and it teaches us what to do to help the earth - Oliver 

• Earth day is important because we live on the earth so we need to understand the importants of helping and cleaning the place we live on - Wynn

• Earth day is important  to me because it is a day to thank the EARTH for what it has done for us for a trillion years! And so on earth day every body should give something back to nature that it would like so like cleaning up. - Effie

Each line in our class poem came from a line in a students' individual poem.

Sometimes we feel like the earth and all of its creatures.

We eat like animals.

Tigers can be ferocious when they eat, just like we eagerly gobble up pizza, cheese smearing all over our faces, pepperoni all over the walls. 

We have skills like animals.

We quickly slide the puck down the slippery ice and slap it into the net, like a beaver smacks their cool designed tails across the water, cheering us on.

Like a cat lurking in the night with its glimmering eyes, our eyes navigate and peer through the blackness of our deep dark basements.

We communicate like animals.

For the sake of our family, we love shouting so loud, scaring our siblings out of our rooms, like a tiger roaring to keep others off its territory.

Bees buzz loudly like us. We love to engage but are shy when it comes to new people. Weaving through the grass, we cautiously approach the new Queen Bee.

We protect like animals.

As lions are protective of their cubs, we hover over our stuffies and books, claws out, never letting anyone touch or go near them.

We use our deadly spikes to scare enemies and protect our friends. As we grow up, our spikes get sharper, learning more about how to resolve conflict.

We learn like animals.

Our minds are as long as a rat's tail, there is always room to grow. We're always expanding until our thoughts reach from head to toe, full of knowledge. 

We rest like animals.

When the sun shimmers above, we are lazy. We like to sit back and relax, as a cheetah lies down in the grass, sheltered in the shade of a tree.

We are extremely idle when it’s winter, cuddling in our den of blankets, recharging, just like a lion sleeping for 20 hours a day after a big long hunt.

We love nature like animals.

Green anacondas love the color green like us! So, they must love nature, warming up in its heat, while we’re enjoying the warmth of melting snow, the smell of flowers blooming in the spring.

We frolic like animals.

We are as playful as a tiger cub. Just how a tiger cub wrestles with its siblings, scratching and pouncing, rolling around, we like to tackle as we play football.

Dolphins are playful like us. We're silly and creative like them when they do stunts. We dive under the water, not scared of what’s underneath.

We’re resilient like animals.

Our hearts can grow as big and fierce as a cougar in our little bodies. They reach up to 5 meters, always getting us up when things get hard. We shred the uncomfortable  feelings that come with not doing well on a test.

Tardigrades can survive ferocious environments without water, so they can conquer anything earth throws at ‘em. We are also small but very tough.  When people tear us down, we roll up into a protective ball and get back up.

We’re caring like animals

Just like dogs we are warm blooded, but even when our heart becomes closed, the warmth of friendship seeps in for life’s warm hug, reviving us.

Sloths climb trees but for me, I don't climb trees like so many would expect. We are the trees, strong and embracing many animals like the sloth. We surround our friends, but most importantly our roots reach down grounding us.

That’s why we feel like the earth and all of its fuzzy, smooth, scaly, feathery creatures.