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:
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
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.
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
What sounds make up your day?
