The Poetry Unit has Come to an End

This week we have been writing poems and everyone's Poem Packet is due on Monday. Next week in Reading we will start reading The Cay, and in Language Arts we will began writing persuasive essays.

More Poems by our 7th Graders:

"Piano Songs"
The First strike of the solid keys
Are like music to my ears,
Different crescendos and dynamics
Bring the music to life,
It can go fast, medium, or slow,
Be piano or metzo forte,
The music makes me feel like I'm
In a different place or setting,
At times I feel serene,
And others angry and frustrated,
But happy for what I can do
On that wonderful, magical instrument.


"Today"
Today's the day,
To go the distance.
To reach for the stars.
To follow my dreams.
To find what I've been looking for.
To answer MY questions.
To travel my thoughts.
Today's the day,
To be me.

Onomatopoeia

What a great word! This week students wrote poems with onomatopoeias (sound effects) and alliteration. This coming up week we will be writing an anthology of poems to finish up our poetry unit.

In Language Arts we have finished Unit 5 on Mechanics, and we will have the Unit 5 test on Thursday.

Important Dates:
Monday- No School! Martin Luther King Day!
Tuesday- Progress Reports
Wednesday- AR Printouts Due
Thursday- LA Unit 5 Test
Friday- Wordskills Unit 13 Test

Tongue Twister- Alliteration:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

See if you can pick out the onomatopoeias.

"Water Slide"
Woosh! The sound of water,
Wee! You slide down,
Splash! You hit the pool.

By: One of our 7th Graders

Limericks

This week we have written poems in Reading. Students wrote a haiku and a limerick. Next week we will learn about personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, imagery and free verse. In Language Arts we will finish up our grammar unit.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Some fun limericks:

A flea and fly in a flue

Were caught, so what could they do?

Said the fly, "Let us flee."

"Let us fly," said the flea.

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

-Ogden Nash

There was an Old Person whose habits,

Induced him to feed upon rabbits,

When he'd eaten eighteen,

He turned perfectly green,

Upon Which he relinquished those habits.

-Edward Lear

There once was a man with strange hair.

He said, "Anything other than physics, don't care."

He sat down with a book,

And had a long look,

And he realized that E=mc2!

-Sarah Antel