A Peek Into A Waters Window

Hello, dearest reader! I’m back again with another download from Waters Elementary, where students spent time last week reflecting on what its like to be a Waters student. We read student poem “7 Ways of Looking At Taft High School” together, identifying the parts of the poem that spoke to our senses. Students talked about moments in the poem that resembled their experiences at their school. After students wrote individual poems, I compiled their work to create exquisite corpse poems for each of the classes. Here’s what I came up with:

Ms. Roman's 6th Grade

13 Ways of Looking at Waters

Old brown but modern building

It stands tall, inviting students in like your nice 5th grade teacher

with a mosaic entrance for everyone to see

The place I came to learn

 

The lost and found is stocked with

scattered assignments

pencils, erasers pens, glue sticks and more

 

I hear laughter from my favorite classrooms

I need to be smart

The memories are amazing

Days of kindness,

Watching Yaxel Lendeburg highlights on school computers

hallways are busy, bustling with students, jammed like traffic

riding down the slides on the playground

learning in the classrooms and on the field

The smell of the science room is like a fresh out of the oven pie

The friends made along the way

All the memories I made

 

I got older and kinder

the endless river of words being dammed

saves me a thousand times over

 

Here, you figure out who you are and what you like

the memories are like a book with words in pen.

No matter how hard you try to erase them, you can’t forget them

Ms. Smallwood's 6th Grade

13 Ways of Looking at Waters

Waters is as old as the dinos

When I step into Waters, I’m drinking water

the building is old and red

bright, colorful and inviting

old, stylish, and a mix of new

the ringing bell letting us in and out

the sound of constant squacking,

squacking of the board

we get told when to work

learning about life and relating to the future

 

I have lost a lot of things

some as simple as pens,

my missing woodchip shaped like a dog,

from footballs to water bottles, even shoes,

but I have never, and will never lose myself

After all, I’ve made some friends

Kids playing sports at recess

Lunch like a storm full of chaos

never eat the meat

everyone runs out when school is over

the best part of the day is leaving when angels embrace you

I’ve grown a lot though,

height and knowledge

I might have grown brain cells

and I know I will learn a lot more.

At Waters, what do YOU do?