Our 10th sessions at Swift landed on the last Friday before spring break, and everyone seemed to be counting down the hours before it began. 2nd graders had been on a field trip to the Shedd Aquarium the previous day and many were still thinking about fish and octopuses! After chatting about such things we swerved over to talk about personification, and enjoyed reading “Ode to My Shoes” by Francisco X. Alarcón. Students brainstormed lists of things that could be personified in a poem, and some managed to get a first draft of a poem written. Enjoy!
Ms Urquiza
2nd Grade
Breanna V.
A backpack singing Justin Bieber songs
A pencil drinking juice
A book reading to another book
A phone eating bread
Christian C.
un reloj trata de ver su hora
un telefono se habla el misma
un silla camina
un espejo trata de verse el mismo
Diego C.
A PC that watches tv and jumps on clouds
A duck that is a millionaire
A swan that eats McDonald’s
A teddy bear that dances
Emanuel D.
An owl singing to its friend
The moon talking to earth
A dog playing board games
A fish driving a car
An acorn flying
Ms. Pendola
2nd Grade
Azarah M.
When a cloud eats a watermelon
juice gets on its white jumpsuit
sometimes seeds go in its mouth
and the cloud spits the seeds
in a pile of dirt
When the sun shaves its mustache
the mustache gets on him
and it gets in his mouth
and then he chokes and spits it out
Things That Do the Same Things As Human Do
by KeAndre W.
A dog wakes up in the morning talking about shoes
and
A banana walking to the grocery mart
and
A cat reading books
Inas F.
When a cloud is singing
sometimes birds get in her light
pink dress and all
jump ropes will fly in the sky
Ms. Reed
3rd Grade
Anjila K.
A book doing kung fu
A water bottle walking with me
A soccer ball chewing gum
A pencil kissing a pen
A pencil sharpener acting like a model
Abdul
A cloud that cries when it gets a F-
on the test
An American flag eating a burger
with a Saudi flag
Sumin Cool Pro
My house doing a back flip
My book eating Momo
Mobin’s shoes smell his socks
My water bottle running faster than Mobin
Ms. Herlo
3rd Grade
The Crazy Things I Have at Home
by Moyo F.
At home I have a cat that talks,
a dog that gasps, and a crayon that
cries.
I also have a pencil that
tickles, and a raindrop that hums.
I have bird that gives kisses,
and a monkey that drives.
These are all the crazy things I have
at home.
Evlin A.
A pencil that cries every single time it writes,
a coat of wet paint that could sneeze a-choo,
Imagine a bubble that speaks every word it can think
of just until it pops
or a bead that wonders and ponders on any thoughts of
questions it may have.
Have you ever been to a recital where a flowers dances
to beautiful music?
or have you seen a bell that’s drives for miles and miles
before finding destiny
The Hard Life of An ice Cream Cone
by Abby
Ice cream running on the sun
freezing cold in the freezer
grabbed by a human feeling sad
getting grabbed by the sun
getting a friend
hiding behind a bush
laying on the sidewalk feeling tired
getting pushed by a bully feeling sad
