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Summer Is... Sense Poems      August 2001

We became poets and illustrators during our first week of school, combining Science and Language Arts curriculum requirements in this writing assignment. We described summer associations using our five senses, wrote poetry practicing the writing process, and used our classroom computers to prepare our final copies.  Our illustrations were done with colored pencils- very grown up this year!

Aaron                                                                           August 30, 2001 Summer Is... Summer is watery blue. It tastes like blue raspberry ice pops. It smells like buttery popcorn. Summer reminds me of black bears. And sounds like red-tail hawks. Summer feels like the beach.

Alexander                                                                 August 30, 2001 Summer Is... Summer is scarlet It tastes like sour strawberry Italian ice It smells like fresh grass Summer reminds me of clear water oceans And sounds like frogs croaking Summer feels hot and relaxing and sunny

Allyson                                                                  August 29, 2001  Summer Is... Summer is orange and yellow It tastes like a hot fudge sundae and a banana split It smells like roses Summer reminds me of all my friends And sounds like grass hissing like a snake Summer feels like the blowing on a stormy day

Kaytlyn                                                                   August 29, 2001 Summer Is... Summer is baby blue It tastes like vanilla ice cream It smells like cotton candy Summer reminds me of swimming And sounds like sparkly streams Summer feels hot

Michael                                                                     August 29, 2001 Summer Is... Summer is brick red It tastes like black cherry ice pops It smells like campfires Summer reminds me of fresh green leaves And sounds like crickets chirping Summer feels steamy and hot