This week I had to distinct pleasure of writing poems to music with the Darwin Elementary 2nd and 3rd Graders. As part of the Poetry Center’s Collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, our students are listening to movements from Carnival of the Animals and creating poems for the animals in the music. In these classes we worked on songs for Donkeys, Kangaroos, and… Pianists! Enjoy!
Ms. Robbins
2nd and 3rd Grade
Kangaroo
Farida
He is tiptoeing
he is sneaking
somewhere
Kangaroo
Lashawn W.
This kangaroo is playing a piano
and it is wearing a blue suit.
It’s an old fashioned piano,
black and white and it is
a rectangular prism.
Donkey
Jayden V.
If a donkey could
swim it would
say I want to
swim I’m going
to stay in the pool
all day. You can’t
stay in the pool
all day.
Ms. Arango
2nd Grade
Kimberly H.
Aquarium
Dancing fish
underwater
fish playing
underwanter
and wiggling
underwater
Aquarium
Jazlee S.
The fish are in
the school following
the teacher
The fish are dancing
fish
The fish were playing
in the water
The fish were sleepy
in the water
Aquarium
Genevieve D.
In the water
they are dancing
the music stops
and the fish stop dancing
they put on the music
and it stops again
and all the fish fly
to the music
Ms. Vargas-Mendez
3rd Grade
Kangaroo
Erickson R.
The kangaroo is jumping
slow and it was jumping
faster in my imagination.
He jumps high in the sky,
He jumps slow motion
in the jungle.
Kangaroo
Maria S.
The kangaroo
was having
a contest
and he
was playing
the piano
he was
wearing a
suit and
the kangaroo
won the
contest and
he was
jumping
all around
the people
were like
what is
he doing
Piano Players
Ana E.
I imagine that I
am playing the piano
in an opera
I play the piano fast
and I play the piano slow
and all the animals
are playing instruments
