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Monster List

Last Friday, I was reunited with Swift 2nd graders after missing them for two weeks in a row: one Friday they visited the Peggy Notebaert Museum; and the following week there was no school for students in observance of Good Friday. We resumed our Monster Poem Lesson. In Ms. Brist’s class, students collaborated on a duet-of-monsters poem; and then I was honored to be asked to help students with a poem about the challenges of being a Bilingual Student – which they will perform for a special school assembly in May!

Ms. Pendola 2nd Grade

Ishan

If you look
in a bakery you may
find
A Black Brown Cupcake Monster
eating candy stolen
from the baker’s refrigerator.
It leaves plastic wrappers
in the baker’s bedroom
so the baker gets blamed
for having a messy bedroom.

Yanika

A tree saw the
Rose Monster in the garden
The tree felt nervous
and just stood still.
The Rose Monster
randomly
threw its horns,
not thorns!
It hooked
a book!
It stabbed a butter –
fly!

Group Monster List Ms. Pendola's Class

Slide Monster
Pickle Monster
Bad Person Monster
Toilet Monster
Invisible Monster
Big Back Monster
Loud Sounds Monster
Tree Monster
Cockroach Monster
Rainbow Monster

Ms. Brist 2nd Grade

Group Collaboration Ms. Brist's Class

Be careful when
you open up a sock drawer
there might be a
Smelly Sock Monster inside!
because that’s where
it likes to hide.

It loves the taste of
dirty socks eeewwww!
and the smell of the insides
of shoes yuck!

It will chase you and rub
thrown-out socks on you oooo!
The only thing that can stop it
is if you take a bath! aahhh!

Because the Bath Monster
will fill up your whole house
with water and bubbles!
The Bath Monster’s head
is made of colorful bubbles
and only has one eye
this will make you cry
(or sigh)
to see your house flooded
with bubbles the color
of the rainbow.

If you’re stinky
the Bath Monster
will make you smell like a rose.
“you better go take a shower!
so you can smell like a flower!”