As part of their Science topic this term, Year Four students have been learning about skin.
In Literacy, with Miss Bonnie, they used jeweller’s loupes to look closely at their hands and created a poem while thinking about two focus questions: “What else does it look like?” and “What does it remind me of?”
Here are some examples of their thoughtful poems:
My Hand
Like a whirlpool whirling in the deep blue sea,
Curved lines like a zebra running in Africa,
A sunset lowering over the horizon,
A mountain looming in the distance,
A rope running down a mountain,
Waves crashing down onto a beautiful beach,
Water running down a river in Egypt,
A thin layer of snow lying on my fingertip,
An ice cream cone in a shop,
My hand, so many different patterns!
My Hand is a…
Tiger prowling the jungle,
The moon orbiting us this second,
A little lane with cars crossing quietly,
Small dots on a poor little child with measles,
An ice cream cone floating in someone’s stomach,
My nails as hard as a piece of glass, broken on the floor,
One million little soldiers marching along the plains.
My Hand
My hand makes me think of the stripes on a zebra, so black and bold,
A never-ending whirlpool spinning round,
Cracks in a humongous canyon,
Lines on my paper,
A conch shell from the sea,
Scratches on an old plank of wood,
Big boulders in our school playground,
Volcanoes just about to erupt,
A swirling river,
Water so clear and blue,
A dark cup of coffee that my Mom has,
An eye looking at me right now.