Gratitude and a bit of poetry

Students created this lovely card for Ms. Tatiana who was a substitute teacher on Thursday. Each student contributed a colorful square.

I feel that this week has been like that card - colorful, with each student contributing to make it beautiful. I appreciate the enthusiasm, curiosity, creativity and cooperation the students have shown this week.

As a little weekend gift I would like to share two short poem. Inspired by Laura Purdie Salas and her 15 words or less poems. We used our FMF texts (the word was "Outside"), to choose words and play around with them to create poems. The original idea was to use less than 15 words, but it is ok for poets to work and create differently than the assigned task. The two examples show how different the approaches can be. Keep in mind that these are just the first drafts.

Outside
by M

I like to play
hide and seek,
have fun and jump
on the trampoline,
play tag and
king at a tree,
and shoot my sister
with freezing water,
because I am
her brother.


Outside
by Z

Creativity outside,
realism left behind.
Curiosity takes flight
through the sky
like a beautiful eagle
spreading its wings
for the first time ever
outside the box.