Last week at South Loop Elementary School, we read Mary Carolyn Davies’ “Portrait of a House” to start our thinking about what kind of buildings we go into everyday. We talked about stanzas being paragraphs of a poem, and that the word stanza originally meant “room.” Using that as our inspiration, we wrote some fantastic poems about our schools, our homes, and the lives we live there.
South Loop Poetry Club
4th Grade-6th Grade
My House by Ruzzi M., 6th Grade
My bedroom is great
smells like bubblegum
with music and
video games
My mom’s bedroom is
boring. Laundry and
boring TV shows.
The kitchen it smells great
Things like daisy
dishes like yellow
chicken curry and
tacos and burgers
with fries and
sometimes cookies.
The living room is great with TV shows.
We also have a Xbox and play
board games.
The End
Warm by Zachary G., 5th Grade
My house is warm in the summer
My house is cold in the winter
My Room is warm with 2 windows
And in the corner is my
computer
My bed warm as a fire
And my toys as fun as ever
My Living Room
with the TV and the couch
with the warm Rug
My bathroom
where it is cold
And smells
My Kitchen smells
Like mushrooms
With 6 chairs
Jammed by Oliver G., 4th Grade
Step into my house
where your passion will be jammed. My
kitchen where my
memories over the
years have been
jammed into a tortilla.
Da Rooms by Whitman G., 4th Grade
Warm in Winter 2 bathrooms 2 bedrooms
Big, messy, sporty
Small, quiet, smells like perfume
Gold, green, soapy and smells like soap
Clean, white, smells like dish soap
