Poetry Unit: Newspaper Poem

So far in our poetry unit we have completed a free verse poem (The Best Part of Me).  Today we completed our newspaper poem.  

Newspaper poem is interesting words, phrases, or headlines that are cut of a newspaper and rearranged until a poem emerges.

We actually found this assignment really hard because we had to scan small, condensed words and put them together.  So, I tried to make it a bit easier.  They picked a topic, wrote three describing words about their topic, and then if they were in Grade 2/3 they had to write or find a sentence about their topic.  These are their creations.

Tigers

Take in scents in his territory

Tigers

By Tosh

Bears

The grizzly bears eat fish.

Grizzlies are a mammal

Animal, hunters, enormous

Bears

By James

Mummies

Joseph it directly

dead, people, graves

By Josh

Diamonds

Jewelry, gems, glow

Diamonds

By Jack

Our Kindergarten students had to pick a topic and then find the letters to make their word.  Jack found pictures about Empire Penguins.

Ice Age Fox

Montana, Gray Wolf, hunting

Foxes are ghostly when hiding.

This fox is good at hunting snowshoe hares.

Ice Age Fox

By Alex

Kitty Cat

Happy, nails, hairballs.

Long-haired cats need more grooming.

Even though you let your feline friend strut around like she owns the place, the truth is she needs you.

Cat

By Sam

Women

Make up, respectful, teeth

By Vanessa

Bears

Giants, paws, wildlife

By Lucy

Zebras

Family, harm, stallions, herds

A lioness eyed grazing zebras for half an hour, weighing her chances of taking one down alone.

Born to roam.

Zebras

By Seth

Samantha is also in Kindergarten and found pictures about owls.  She then found the letters to make the word. 

Polar Bears

weak, food, bear

New cubs on the ice hunt.

Females are protective of their cubs but tend to ignore family.

Polar Bears

By Daniel

Space

Astronomer, The moon, astronaut

the big bang, telescopes, universe

supernova

Space

By Emily