Poems

Haiku

 

Blueberries

By Lion

Round and squishable

Blue as the sky and the sea

Sweetness and goodness

 

Spring Haiku

By Katie

Yes, spring is now here

You can swim and play outside

Flowers are blooming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acrostic

 

Leaf Cutter Ants

By Emmett

Lifting almost 50 times their body weight

Eating a fast-growing fungus

Always making new fungus

Following the trail to the leaves

 

Cutting all the leaves

Using only smell

The leaves are chewed up to feed the fungus

Then another queen flies away to start another nest

Eating her wings for nutrients

Restarting the fungus in the new nest

 

Always working hard

Never stopping to think

That’s real dedication

Still cutting…cutting…cutting…cutting

 

 

Sloth

By Alex

Slowly getting food

Loving the view up in the canopy

Out having fun

Through the trees

Hanging upside down

 

Sloths

By Mak

So so slow

Lazy lazy sloth.

Oh, look up.  There’s an unnoticeable sloth.

Their color is camouflaged

He sleeps all day.

Sloths are so amazing.

 

Sloths

By Nathan

Slow and awesome

Lots of moss on them

Oh, my.  They are slow

They have claws too.

Hey, that sloth can swim.

Slow, slow, slow they go

 

 

 

 

 

Tanka

 

Sloths

By Alex

Sloths are super slow

Awesome sloths have really sharp claws

The algae gets eaten off

They have algae on them.  Weird!

They hang upside down all day

 

Jaguar

By Emmett

Crouching in a tree

Waiting for the dark to hunt

Creeping down the tree

The black jaguar stalks its prey

Juicy, luscious meat.  Yum, yum!

 

Sloths

By Nathan

Sloths are so awesome

Three claws on each hand. Cool, man.

It is super slow

It can swim too.  Wow!  That’s cool.

As slow as it is cool.  L.O.L.

 

Tiger

By Tigerlily

The tiger big strong

Rare and mighty big and strong

Prowling softly shh

Small animal in sight whoosh

Caught it in its mighty grasp

 

Fibonacci

By Nathan

Bunnies

Are

So cute.

I love them

So much.  They are so

Small and furry, cuddly.  Bunnies live in burrows.

I want to play with a bunny someday.  Bunnies are furry and cute.

No, not cute.  Adorable.  Bunnies are so small and lovable and cuddly and I love them so so much.

  

 

Boa

By Lion

Long

Sloping

Silently sneaking

Swallowing mice a lot

Slipping up and down trees

Lots of little critters to eat for lunch

Mice, monkeys, jaguars, too. Lots of animals for you to eat. Yum yummy!

Animals fear you when you come around, but you’re the best at eating than any one at all because you’re Boa!

 

The Moose

By Tiger

Soft

Tall

Strong bold

Quick and fast

Prancing along the mossy ground

You never hear them.  They look like trees. 

You could look at them for hours, but never know they aren’t trees.

Standing quiet but proud they are like shadows standing on a cloud with long strong necks.  They only eat algae. Moose

  

 

Fibonacci

by Emmett

What

A

Really cool

Type of animal

Running through the silent woods

Sniff, sniff, find the scent, prepare to attack.

Gather the pack.  Over the river, though the boulders.  The scent is strong.

Circle around behind, don’t let it see you.  The wolverines attack the moose.  Go for the throat.  The kill is ours. 

 

Bear

By Calvin

The

Hunter

Stalks his

Prey.  Blood is

In the air.  Smashing the

Brush, a rabbit!  Pounce, snap dead wolves howling.

They smell the blood.  Leave it to the wolves stalking the deer…wait…

Here it is, jump, go for the throat, sinking your claws into its flesh, thrashing its head, a good clean kill.

A Favorite Food by Willa

My favorite food is Chickweed.  Chickweed tastes sweet with a bitter aftertaste and it’s healthy for me.  It looks like a small cup and it has flowers the size of a pin.  It grows through my whole backyard and we eat it anytime we want, just by picking it and plopping it in your mouth.  Chickweed is the most delicious food ever. 

I think that...by Katie

I think that it is important that children have pets.  I think that when they have pets it gives them a lot of responsibility.  For example they have to feed it and clean up after it and take care of it.  You also have to love it.  Pets are good friends.


It also gives children a friend to play with except if it's a fish.  I think that dogs are the best friend to have because you can do a lot of stuff with them.  Some people can't have a pet because they live in an apartment.  I think that is very unfair.  I like to play fetch with my dog and take him on walks.  That makes me get outside.  That is why kids should have a pet. 

Skiing by Calvin

For downhill skiing you put on special boots and then you get on a chairlift.  A chairlift is where you wait in line then you go on to the platform and get pulled up the mountain by two motors at either end.  When you get to the top you get off of the chairlift.  You go down the trail to the chairlift again and get on etc., etc., etc. 


When choosing a trail at a fork in the trail consult your trail map. Your choice is:  Gecko Gorge or falling!  You want to choose Gecko Gorge right?  Good!  If you are confronted by another choice follow this advice, green circle is beginner, blue square is intermediate, black diamond is hard and double black diamond is extremely hard.  You might want to try a terrain park.  It has jumps and rails.  It is orange oval.


Skiing with my friend Alex is extremely fun because he is fast like me so he can keep up with me. 


Racing down Pine Slope
Going dangerously fast
Tucking all the way


We went on a lot of trails and went to the top quite a lot.  We also hit East Side.  We had Skittles on the lift!


This is a Mount Abram's haiku:


Going very fast
Getting air on the jumps
Skiing the West Side 

When I learned how to snowboard...by Katie

When I learned how to snowboard I was very excited.  I went to Mount Abrams.  My snowboard class was called Squirrels.  There were lots of kids.  I was really excited, but I was also nervous.  I fell down a lot and I was very sore.  Next time I don't think I will fall down as much.  I learned that snowboarding is harder than it looks.  I went with my mom and my sister.  My dad also snowboards and next time I will go with him.  Mount Abrams is very small compared to Sunday River.  There are forty seven trails.  There is also a Maine Lodge and a West Lodge.  At first I had no idea about how to get my snowboard on.  After I did a couple of runs I got the hang of it.  What you do is you sit down and slip your feet into it and then you crank the lever on the toe and put it in a tighter gear.  To get the snowboard off you pull a black clip on the toe.  When you are getting on the lift you want to unbuckle one foot.  Then you skate.  Skating is where you push off the ground with one leg while the other leg is strapped in.  When I'm going fast I need to stay in control so I don't run into anyone!

I love sledding by Whyse

I love sledding, it is really fun!  Nathan and I like to sled at recess on the playground.  I like to go fast, so extreme hills are the most fun.  We can see all around at the top of the hill.  We can hear the other kids playing.  The cold air makes my nose stuffy!!  On the way down we crashed into each other!  We were fine.  I love going fast!

Skiing with Calvin by Alex

Last Sunday Calvin and I went skiing at Shawnee Peak.  The first time I went down Pine Trail, which is the trail under the chairlift.  I saw a lot of people and snow.  I also saw a bunch of trees and there were about one hundred chair lift seats.  I heard the wind as Calvin and I went down the slopes.  I also heard the music inside the lodge while we ate meat patties (p.s.  They are hamburgers!)  After that we did three more runs.  Then we got ready to go home.  The first two runs we went on Pine Trail again.  The last run we went on was Tycoon.  It was so hard for me.  Calvin and his dad had to wait for a minute.  Then once we got back to the lodge we took off our gear to go to Calvin and Emmett's house.  We played there for about two hours then I went home.  It was really fun skiing with Calvin. 

Sledding by Mak

I went sledding with Emi.  We brought two sleds with us.  One for me and one for Emi.  We had fun.  I fell out of my sled.  I got hurt.  My sled was orange.  Emi's sled was purple.  Where we went sledding was clear.  It was in a field.  The slope was slippery.  Emi ran into thorns.  She didn't get hurt.  She got out of her sled.  My sled stopped and I got out and pulled Emi's sled out of the thorns.  I thought I hope she doesn't do that again.  When we were done we went to the house.  Kim gave us hot cocoa and we drank it and we ate the marshmallows.  When we were done we went upstairs and played legos.  We were nice and warm. 

A winter activity....by Nathan

A winter activity that I like is skiing.  Skiing is really fun because I am outside in the winter.  I like to take my time when I ski.  First you have to find ski boots.  Then you find skis and then you put them on.  Then you get the poles.  You go ski on the snow and have fun.  When you go down a hill always bend your knees.  I go to Carter's to ski.  I love to ski.  Skiing is really really fun!  I love the poles too.  My favorite trail so far is the Swamp Trail.  I love to ski in the woods too.

If I could be any animal...by Katie

If I could be any animal I would be a panda that lives in the zoo.  Usually pandas live in Asia.  Pandas live on the ground and sometimes they climb trees.  I would be a panda because they are endangered and people can't hurt them.  Come back pandas!  I would also like to live in the zoo because people would feed you and take care of you.  Pandas mostly eat bamboo as well as other plants.  They sometimes eat small animals too.  I also think pandas are very cute.  I would also be a panda because I like their colors.  Their colors are black and white.  Once I saw a panda in the zoo and it had babies.  Pandas are my favorite animal in the world.