Space Camp: Sun Poetry

by Itza

During February Space Camp I had my students right poems about the sun. I thought that it might be a bit difficult since my grades were kindergarten and first grade. To ease individual worry, as the kindergarteners cannot write a lot and first graders lack vocabulary, I had them write the poems in groups.

In all, four wonderful poems were written, one by the kindergarten class and three by the first grade. We were able to complete all these poems thanks to the awesome assistance of my fellow AmeriCorps member, Nellie. Together we were able to cultivate ours students' crazy and original ideas into poems they were proud of. The following are these poems:


1.
What if people tried to eat the sun?
Just to try the taste.
They want to eat it all themselves and never share again.
They use a rocketship to fly to space, landing safely on the sun.
Dig, dig, dig. Scoop, scoop, scoop.
Just to try the taste.
Then something happened,
They all turned into part of the sun! Forever!
Never be greedy or eat the sun.
-1st grade


2.
What if the sun was a monster?
It will eat people.
Step on them.
Smash them.
Throw poison ivy on them.
Sit on them.
Smack them with a pan.
Shoot them in the butt with fire.
What a mean monster it'd be.
-1st grade


3.
What if the sun was a monster?
Maybe it would breath fire,
that way it could warm it's butt.
Maybe it would throw fireballs,
that way it could warm other people's butts.
Maybe it would be made out of fire,
then it's butt would already be toasty.
-1st grade


4.
What if the sun was made up of animals?
It would probably look like a giant animal.
Milk and eggs would fall from the sky,
sometimes on your head.
I hope the animals don't wiggle too much
or they could land on your head.
I'm glad the sun doesn't come out at night
because I'm sure it would be a noisy sun.
Moo! Quack! Woof! Meow! Bak! Oink!
- Kindergarten