Welcome to Issue 4 (because April is the 4th month), Part 2 of WHISPERshout Magazine--featuring poetry by kids ages 4-12!
If you think kids in Kindergarten are too little to write poems, think again. Here are two poems that look good enough to eat! Does Madison's watermelon slice make you smile?
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| "watermelon" by Madison M. - age 5, MD |
In this one notice how the poet Gray imagined a cucumber heading over to put itself into someone's shopping basket!
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| "cucumber" by Gray T. - age 5, MD |
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Even 4-year-olds can compose poems! Here's one by a group of PreK students who chose and arranged Spanish words about their garden with the teacher.
In English, this poem says
green plantsoft flowerseeds in the earthwater for the plants
This poem is beautiful in each language--it sounds good to your ears and feels good in your mouth. Try speaking it out loud!
Our last poem today probably isn't something you'd want to eat--but maybe you'd like to reach out and pet it. Doesn't it look soft and fuzzy?
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"paper" by Jordy, age 7, MD |
That's recycled paper Jordy made in his 2nd grade class. Notice how small this poem is--just 5 words to make us look at a blob of gray paper in a whole new way!
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That's our four poems for this issue. We hope you enjoyed them and that you'll come back for Part 3, which will publish on Wednesday, April 19. Feel free to leave a helpful comment below. You can submit YOUR work by email--just click the button below--and thanks for WHISPERshouting with us!
The Editorial Staff
Everything is delicious here from Madison's watermelon smile to a fluffy koala! I want to hug this issue and give it some love! Thanks young poets. You are wondering and imagining. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteMadison and Gray's poems made me smile! Nice imaginative thinking, and delightful artwork too. Yes, the pre-K poem is fun to read aloud and Jordy's poem looks good to pet. :) Great second issue!
ReplyDeleteWhat a joy to read these words from such young poets! Cannot wait to share the link with my kinder-teacher sister and niece!
ReplyDeleteLove all these poems. Yes, watermelons look like a smile.Great choice of words for the cucumber - bumpy, green, crunchy, sweet. They are so "cucumbery."
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