Poetic Stylings of a 4 and 6 year old (and 28yo!)

Today we were working on rhyming words and looking at songs, ballads, poems and other rhyming words.  Our assignment was to make a short poem about Jesus, then about our family.

So I showed the girls how to brainstorm rhyming words.I told them I was going to write a poem about Jesus’ birth, so help me think of words.

I said day – Sierra said neigh

I said boy – Sierra said toy

I said Savior – Sierra said favor

 

So then I showed the girls how I took the rhyming words and made up a sentence with them on the end:

 

On Christmas Day

When the horse said neigh

Was born a baby boy.

He was shinier than a Christmas toy

For he was Jesus, our Savior

and we always want to be in His favor.

I figured I would do the ‘hard’ one about Jesus and explain to the girls how to write a poem (yes, I know they don’t have to rhyme… but they are only in K and 1st, we don’t need to get into a deep discussion on poetry – lol)

 

Sierra brainstormed words for her family poem… here are the ones she came up with

Karis – Paris, Mom – Bomb, Dad – glad.  And here is her poem:

 

One day we took Karis to Paris

And Mom blew a bomb

And Dad was so glad

that Mom blew a bomb!

And Ruby was looking for a word that rhymes with her name, so her poem ended up being:

 

Ruby went to the movie

I was CRACKING UP over Sierra’s poem, and thought Ruby did pretty well herself too! So I thought I’d share our poetic stylings ;P