Ms. Thomas 6th Grade
Keys
The keys are like a jingle bell
on Christmas Eve.
Pencil Sharpener
The pencil sharpener is like
an astronaut
a pac-man game
a mixer
a microscope
a stapler.
Poetry as Play!
In Ms Thomas’s 6th grade classes, we read a short poem by Valerie Worth called “Safety Pin” that imagined a safety pin as some very different things (a shrimp! a fish!). We talked about how poetry lets us play with language and make even the most boring objects strange and unfamiliar. We wrote short poems imagining regular, everyday classroom items as new and surprising things.