Sabin Elementary School | 4th Grade

We are reading about personification:

Has My Heart Gone to Sleep?
Antonio Machado

Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives
of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty,
only shadow inside?
No, my heart is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
Not asleep, not dreaming—
its eyes are opened wide watching distant
signals, listening on the rim of vast silence.

Mi Corazón se ha dormido
Antonio Machado

¿Mi corazón se ha dormido? Colmenares de
mis sueños, ¿ya no labráis? ¿Está seca
la noria del pensamiento, los cangilones
vacíos, girando, de sombra llenos?
No; mi corazón no duerme. Está despierto,
despierto. Ni duerme ni sueña; mira, los claros
ojos abiertos, señas lejanas y escucha a orillas
del gran silencio.

Bajo la luna
Douglas Wright

Todos callados, bajo la luna;
el bosque, el lago, el cerro, el monte,
bajo la luna, todos callados.

Under the Moon
Douglas Wright

Everyone is quiet, under the moon;
the forest, the lake, the hill, the
mountain, under the moon, everyone
is quiet.

Students are writing about personification:

4th Grade

Untitled Gradi K.

My heart is sleeping right now
and someone said,
“I got a new cat and mom got a new cat too!”
And then my heart felt it.
my heart was surprised and my heart
was awake, so I ran as fast as I could
outside and I found the two new cats
and it was coooooooool!!!!

A Rainforest Day Elise

The lake gets cuddles as the
Frog jumps in and the clouds
Run by in the sky.
The tree dances in the cold
cold wind and the leaves
just fly on by.
Maybe one day the
sun will cook the ground
and the wind will stop
singing, not making a
sound.
Maybe one day the
birds will shower as
the rain tap dances, on
and on, not stopping, still
tapping around.

Home Things Jade

When I go home I see the TV and it says:
Do not wake me up.
And I said: Ok.

When I got to bed the bed says:
No, get off.
And I said: Ok.

When I go to eat I say: too late.