Ode to Vegetables
I try to support the “legitimate” school skills in my elective class. We do math and writing as well as our other non-traditional activities. Call me crazy, but I do believe that reading, writing, math and THINKING are important skills.
One of the activities we did was an Acrostic Ode to Vegetables. To do that, they must write the letters of the Vegetable (or fruit) vertically and then write a poem. The first line of each poem then starts with the letter of the word. Sounds confusing…. but let me share a few with you.
Pear
Eat raw
All good when eaten at
Right time
Are my favorite
Peyton loves them too
Pie can be made from them
Less juice are in the red one
Eat them slowly so you don’t choke
Mango
A lot of colors
Nutritious treat
Good
Oven not needed
Eat it raw
Peaches are yummy to
Eat
All day cause you can
Cut them and eat them
Hot
Radish
Always red
Doesn’t stink or smell
Does look good on a salad
Iron I think is in it
So many styles
How can I choose
Grapes
Red
Appetizing
Purple
Eat
Sweet or seed
Corn
Oven baked
Roasted
Nutritious
Banana
A lovely fruit
No one can’t like it
A nutritious fruit
Not even animals resist it
A great tasting fruit
OK – they’re not going to win any poetry prizes any time soon. But they just crack me up! It’s obvious that they aren’t asked to stretch their creative muscles in this manner very often. They were quite perplexed. And some of them just totally blew it. But some of them learned to flex just a little bit.
Enjoy a Tuesday smile…courtesy of my (not so) budding poets!
This is great! Next time make them do it in Haiku… just kidding. Now that would be a mental “ouch”!
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I remember having my 1st graders do those kind of poems. Some of the stuff they came up with was rather cute. :o)
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Poetry lessons from EveryoneÂ’s favorite teacher Always patient and upbeat Sunshine Wolf!
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Call me picky, but aren’t only two of those veggies? The rest are fruit! LMAO Hugz
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RYN’S: Thank you. I was thinking after I read your post that this must be a day for poetry. 🙂 You are a fantastic teacher. You never know when you are building the foundation for a skyscraper. They might go from Mango’s to Nobel Prize one of these days.
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Good idea ! Doing it with ABC blocks might be fun because it would be easy to make changes
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those were great. I think you do a good job of bringing out their creativity. 🙂
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I think they were wonderful. Made me smile and I also think you could put them on to the hakus next (I know I spelt that wrong). I also updated as requested. 🙂
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Heh. I like ’em! With a grin…
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“No one can’t like it” 🙂 These put a smile on my face. Thanks!!!!!!
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I remember when TV was free. Course everyone had those stupid rabbit ears on their roofs, but EVERYONE had them, so it wasn’t a big deal. And we only got 3 channels, 4 if you count PBS, which you only watched in school, so that didn’t count..”The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC…” if that hit a memory cord, you may be in your 40’s..
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my mom had a rule, we could eat sunflower seeds but not grape seeds. I love oranges, although no word rhymes with Orange..I can’t eat apples, except in pie..bye..
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You have a great way of teaching…because, I think, you really care about your kids. And for you they stretched their creative muscle. Good job.
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Creativity is all about flex. What a good excercise! One can apply that flex to many areas in life, and so again you teach something more useful than the eye can see. 🙂
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Lovely! Lots of creativity! I particularly enjoyed the comment about mangoes: “Oven not needed” For some reason the thought of baking a mango tickled me – maybe because I bought one yesterday that could have done with a fair amount of baking – or something – to make it ripe enough to eat.
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COuld you tell the banana poet that my sistr in law HATES bananas with a passion!! great poems. I think they’re wonderful
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I was hoping to see one you had come up with, Teach! *Hiding my paper*
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