Right before April vacation we started learning about poetry. I think poetry is interesting because we get to learn about different types. I enjoy making haiku because it is like a word puzzle and it is a little like math. We started poetry by reading picture books. We found poetic lines and wrote them down. Then we took the lines and made a long poem. It is called a found poem. It sounds cool even though the words came from different books. In class we also learned about similes and personification and made poems with those tools. We will do a lot more before the year ends. Shane Here is a poem using personification from Max: I saw poetry clearly. It was like a song to my ears. It turned and twisted as the story went along. I saw its beauty on the paper. I heard poetry today it was as awesome as a kangaroo. Here is a haiku from Tipton: I saw wind today It's not easy being wind Always being blown Here is a poem from Kirby. He wrote a draft and then reversed i...