Museum of Play-doh

School
Nathan Hale Elementary School

Poet in Residence
Christie Valentin-Bati

Date

For this week (which happens to be our last week of poetry until we spear off into a much deserved and needed winter break!) we continued to practice our new vocabulary word: ekphrasis. While the previous ekphrastic session had students using a 2D medium and drawing sketches, this session we decided to go 3D. Using Play-Doh the students made their own sculptures and went around the room writing in response to their sculptures!

School
Nathan Hale Elementary School

Poet in Residence
Christie Valentin-Bati

Date

4th grade

Rock Star Alexcia

hair as black as a dark room

with pink like a rainbow

red puffy lips

as nice as a santa hat

peach skin as my own

Flower Power Olivia

Flowers in the wind

Flowers in the rain

Flowers for wherever you are

and the smell is as sweet

as candy

Spaghetti Anabella

The noodles are yellow like a star

and the tomato sauce

is as red as as a red shoe

Spaghetti Ava. N.

only a little bit sauce

long noodles

blue spoon

Cookie Monster Ava N.

greedy as a cookie monster

blue like a cookie monster

clumsy as a cookie monster

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