Crack! Sound Play

School
Bret Harte Elementary School

Poet in Residence
Crystal Vance Guerra

Date

For the sixth and seventh graders at Bret Harte, poetry may be their last session for the day, but the energy generated each class is always palpable.

Starting with reflections on their favorite sounds, their least liked sounds, students engaged with sound play and inventing new onomatopoeia words, and identifying words so common we forget they are sounds outlined with letters– like CRACK!

After reading through several short poems, students came up with their own creative works playing with sound:

School
Bret Harte Elementary School

Poet in Residence
Crystal Vance Guerra

Date

Ears going ring-a-ding-ding

papers flying

someone is yelling

I wonder who it is?

Oh wait! its Miss. Hamilton

I’m just doing my work

with absolute glee.

What sounds make up your day?

Noisy Class by Genesis

I’m in class
My brain is thumping
Classmate beside me, just keeps yelling
someone’s on the other side
guess what he’s doing, he’s drawing

My Noisy House by Carliyah

Car riding by: HONK!
while I try to walk pass.
My toe hit the wall: CRANK!
Water is running: SWISH!
As I’m focused on washing
every dish.

Dis/like by Gio

I like woof woof, knock knock
I don’t like beep, beep
I hear a girl shouting
I hear waves splashing

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