It's snowing!!!

Since December is here and seems to have finally brought winter along with it, we wrote Winter Poems at Pasteur this week. I took in Nikki Giovanni's "Winter Poem" to kick-off this exercise. Along with discussing the wonderfulness that is this poem, we also discussed how Giovanni puts alliteration to use a great deal in this short piece. We talked about what alliteration is, how you use it, why you use it and offered several alliterative example sentences in class.

I asked the students to write their own Winter Poem. I told them to try and choose one consonant to be alliterative with in their writing, practice ommitting punctuation like Giovanni and I also said that these particular Winter Poems couldn't have any mention of the holidays! Also, we talked about how the most interesting books, movies and poems usually surprise us in the end--so, I asked them to end with an unexpected twist. As usual, they were wintry and wonderful:

Mrs. Villa's 6th Grade Class

Winter Poem
Jessica J.

my house is the
winter of the
earth it is
cold as the
outside porch
the bed as
cold as the inside
of the freezer
as amazing as my dream
world of winterland


Winter Poem
Isacc L.

It is snowing
all the plants are frozen and dead
I am freezing
I turn and see a leftover green leaf
on a tree
I close my eyes for 10 seconds
and when I open it is back
to spring


Winter Poem
Ismael S.

As the snow falls the cars and humans
step on it stop the cars go
lights stay on trees up kids
sleeping the sights are bright snowmen
sitting in the cold as life keeps
going on as everyone is sleeping
in the end it just stops


Mrs. Weiland's 4th Grade Class

Winter Poem
Alexis E.

When you see snow it feels like
a squirt of small water
stores are closed in winter
people are iceskating and kids
are playing snowball fights and making
forts after playing kids and adults
go to their houses and they start
drinking hot cocoas and sit in the
fireplace


Winter Poem
John B.

Once a horizon went
over a hill I
followed the horizon and
I got lost
when it was dark and winter
and soon it was spring


Winter Poem
Amy M.

Once a snow fell in my hair
I saw the snowflake shaped
like a star
I felt a could wind in my face
I was drinking hot cocoa and
when I went outside my cocoa
would freeze
then I felt like a snowflake falling
from the sky


Mrs. Servin's 5th Grade Class

Winter Poem
Julia R.

First I went outside
I felt the snow falling on my body
It felt very cold
I was feeling like a dead flower
The summer has left me
I definitely think I am not ready
for the freezing winter


Winter Poem
Victor S.

I came outside in the cold
winter I wanted to visit my cousins
but then a blizzard hit
I ran inside the house
and looked in each window
a white cold snowflake
falling down
my mother gave me hot chocolate
still I watched as the cool breeze
blew outside and as I watched
I felt as if i could be
a cold white snowflake too


Winter Poem
Christopher G.

I walk out a frozen
cool winter black clouds
shooting lightning wind
blowing I found a brown cat
stuck
car was coming
I didn't want him to die
I helped but not in time
blue mountains as I died


Winter Poem
Brenda H.

my cat crawls under my
bed i catch him with my
blanket but he runs
away outside he
catches a flower and scratches
it and follows me
the snow catches
him and he crawls for help
my cake is warm and good
but my cat crawls and
eats it my head catches a
cold and i catch my cat outside
with scratches
i wish she would understand
i can't catch her tonight


Ms. Kane's 7th Grade Class

suddenly the snowman stared
at me faceless
i snatched the stones and he started
to smile
as i added his clothes he was
surprisingly snug
but as the snow keeps falling
and the sun grew bigger
i found out
the snowman was me


Winter Poem
Giovanni D.

i am outside
the snow is falling
i am making snow angels
the home is toasty
the air is cold
the leaves are falling
i see a deer
it tells me to go inside
the deer gets attacked
by a snow leopard


Mr. Herbeck's 5th Grade Class

Winter Poem
(forgot her name!)

the dark days are not very delightful
the trees are dim they shadow me
these deer appear they are gentle
there are drops on my face
i'm cold
the summer is dead
these days are a bore


Winter Poem
Carlos A.

when a tree is white
you know it is winter
now it is time to consider forever
what you did this winter
why you ask to remember
forever
so i'll wonder off


Winter Poem
Weronika C.

once a snowflake fell
it got so cold everywhere
shivering and covered with a blanket
snuggling by the fireplace
drinking warm tea
turning myself warm


Ms. McDermott's 5th Grade Class


Winter Poem
Ricky R.

winter morning wakes me up and
mom is boiling milk for hot chocolate
marshmellows floating on the top
and melting and not making
a mess and when it is time
before bed i look out the window
and see the moon
before i go to bed
gazing marshmellows spread
instead of snow
and moonlight glistens
and in a instant i am a
marshmellow


Winter Surprise
Sophia

i felt the freezing ice melt
with the heat from my hand
then covered it with the fading snow
i leave it out for the night
i woke feeling happy to see
a flower all firey red


Winter Poem
Brittany

as the snow falls
the winter comes
the people play snowball fights
some go out and sled
down the hill
like a star shooting by the sky