This week we wrote about all things edible! This is one of my favorite lessons to work on with students of all ages. Food is such a great way to engage all five of our senses and everyone has a favorite snack or dish that brings comfort. I started off by giving students a rather wild scenario to get their imaginations fired up. Imagine for a moment, aliens came to earth and were whisking you off to outer space. What is the one meal you would have to eat before being beamed away to some new planet, and how would you describe this dish to an alien in such exquisite detail that they’d want to sit down and eat this culinary delight with you? Pizza, salchipapa, sushi, fries, tamales, steak, linguini…by the end of class everyone was hungry and ready for lunch! I hope you enjoy this week’s poems. Make sure you have a snack, you might get as hungry as I did while reading!
Ms Caplan’s 6th Grade Class
Fire
Arianna P.
A 5 alarm fire, big and hot
just like a wing, it’s spicy
and messy when eating it,
red like a leaf in fall
or hot as a 5 alarm fire, running
to get water or something
to cool down the spicy
wings, or maybe
you feel like eating
spicy noodles, when
eating wings, both are
really spicy, the smell
of the hot and spicy
wings when opening the
doors of wingstop make
you wanna eat a
lot.
Pizza
Benjamin G.
Like the summer
sun on a
plate making
you hungrier
by the second
the taste all
packed into one
bite tickling
your tastebuds
full of joy
the smell of all
the ingredients
making you
float in the
air.
decorating the
pizza like a
Christmas tree
full of red
ornaments of
pepperoni
the memory
of making your
own pizza ans
sliding it in the oven
swiftly
Linguine
Julian
Now listen here, my memories
remember the time I met linguine
it stuck to me like glue
and paper my mom was making
something red, something
messy. I asked her what it
was. She told me Julian
this is called linguine.
It looked like alot of things, starting
with red sauce with sea animals.
It smelled like tomato sauce
it tasted saucy with a little
saltiness. She made it by
pouring tomato sauce on
special pasta and then
she added clams and shrimp and
other sea animals and then
a little salt for flavor that’s
how I met linguine. It resembles
to me, a sea with
strings and that’s how linguine
is stuck to me.
Food Poem
Valentino
A great square plump of cheese, meat
and pepperoni.
Like a brand new type of pizza
but more cheesy and delicious.
Like biting into a savory meat and
sauce explosion with a bold yellow
cheesy taste after.
Fresh, out of the oven with
steaming goodness enough to make
your mouth water like a big
waterfall.
