This week discussed personification—talking about something that isn't human but in human terms. We read Alberto Blanco's poem, The Parakeets and talked about the ways the birds were described in the poem.

Students were then asked to imagine they were something other than a human, either living or inanimate, and write a poem as if they were that thing.

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Isabella K.

I'm a mouse
a white mouse
I look for things
to eat at night

I smell something
something weird
something yellow
but what is it?

I take little steps
to it
but when I get
closer I get trapped
but.....
by what?

Oreo
David L.

I fall asleep.
The couch is warm.
I turn upsidedown
to dream.
My owner knows
when I dream.

So I dream
then I feel a light
massage on my stomach.
Eyes close a mystery to
who's petting me.

I sniff I smell
one of my owners.
Then I feel good
behind my ears.
We fall asleep.
We dream.

The Ant
Terry L.

One day I woke up the world is so colorful
with a sweet green smell.
I came up the wooden box it was night.
I eat so sweet snow big not cold at all.
I was red as fire,
I like the cold blue drop from the sky.
I live in a nice hole.

The Dog Dream
Alex P.

The dog is swimming
his eyes are closed and
he is not in water is he
dreaming or does he just want
to go swimming? I know
I just don't know how to
say it in human.

Whale
Eric W.

I'm a big lonely whale
I try to make friends
but everyone runs away.
Just a big lonely whale at the bottom of
the sea
just waiting.

Mrs. Jones, 3rd Grade

Fish
Christine H.

I'm a fish. I go swim in the
water. I see worms. I am going
to eat it. Then it is a line on.
Do not get me and have me
for a pet.

Butterflies
Daniella M.

We fly all day with
our colorful wings
through the grass and
the trees oh just can
you feel the lightly
breeze can you see
the sun shining so
bright oh butterflies
they fly fly oh how
we fly in the sky.

The Frog
Marcus M.

I would like to be a frog.....
"I can jump!
"I can go lay on a lily pad!
"I can go on water and land."
Watch as I go into
the swamp.
The swamp is real eeky
for me.
"Yuk!
Yuk!"

I Am a...
Claudia S.

A shirt wandering in a store.
I am a shirt wanting to go.
I'm a shirt wanting to be worn.
I'm a shirt that has buttons.
I'm a shirt that got exchanged.
I'm a shirt in a store
wanting to go.

Ants
Damaris V.

If I were an ant, I would
see different things: an ant
will see a rock but if I were
an ant you will see a house.
If you were an ant, you can see
different things: outside different
anywhere. You are lower if you
are an ant. Big things. If you were
an ant: huge outside, anywhere
huge if you were an ant!

Mr. Sandlass, 4th Grade

Cow
John B.

I live in a barn
on a farm.
I, cow, eat grass
to make milk.

bug
Vincente H.

I hate this life. I have to be
on the constant lookout for the shoes.
I wish I was big. Because I
can talk but what good is that
if you're small and have a tiny
voice?

The Talking, Walking Television
Andres P.

I went to the living room to see TV.
Then I bent and the TV is alive,
he said, are you gonna turn me on?
I said, yes I'm gonna turn you on to see shows.
Then he walked away.
I drew a finish line with chalk,
and it stopped.
So I watched TV until lunch.
He don't talk anymore.

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Alvin P.

in my house the bird is trying
to get in my window and
the sun is so hot it looks
like summer and the
leaves are falling to the ground
the world is crazy

Rabbits
Natalie Z.

The movement of
the rabbits goes
up high and very low
as if a person on
a bumpy ride
the way the rabbits
hide between the grass
laying in the shade
and the misty clouds
fade as if you
wonder how the rabbits
were made.