Teamwork

This past week students were asked to work with a partner to compose a metaphor poem about an assigned color.  I was very impressed with the work that they did.  Some excerpts from their poems are included below.

Yellow is the sun on a hot summer day.
Yellow is the scent of books being opened for the first time.
Yellow is sleeping and relaxing on a comfy, newly made bed.

Green is luck

As you see a rainbow in the sky

Green is a clover

As you find it lying on the ground

Green is grass   

when it slips through your toes in the summer

Pink is cherry blossom trees swaying in the spring breeze

Pink is being kissed by your mom

Pink is a heartbeat of a newborn baby 

Orange is a friend's house, having fun

Orange is balloons floating into the orange sunset

Orange is the city, with bright lights and lots of noise

Purple is the gloomy sky before dark

Purple is the soft cry in the distance

Purple is a cloudy day when no one wants to go outside 

Neon green is trying and trying to make a shot
And celebrating when you finally do.

It is also the sound of "never give up" repeating in your head.

Red's sound is laughter

when you’re chatting with your friends.

Red is roses

in a fresh bouquet.

Red's taste is strawberry ice cream

on a hot summer day.

Brown is a drum beat

Slow and depressing

Brown is spoiled milk

When it has already separated

Brown is dirty bandages

That have not been disposed of

Blue is the sky in the middle of summer

Blue is blueberries fresh from Mother Earth

Blue is cotton candy, fluffy and soft

The class also displayed great teamwork when decorating our door for Spirit Week. Our assigned state was Florida, and I was amazed at the way in which the students planned, organized themselves, and worked in groups to decorate the top of the door like the swamp (Everglades), the middle of the door like Universal Studios, and the bottom of the door like the beach.