{"id":2273,"date":"2009-05-29T19:11:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2009-05-29T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:11:57","slug":"grade-5-shell-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-5\/grade-5-shell-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 5 Shell Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bonnie-20091\"All the children in Grades 3 – 7 have enjoyed writing poetry with Miss Bonnie this week, using the ‘Private Eye Program’.<\/p>\n

The Private Eye is a program about the drama and wonder of looking closely at the world, thinking by analogy, changing scale and theorizing. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s based on a simple set of tools that produce \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gifted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d results.\u00c2\u00a0 Hands-on and investigative, The Private Eye uses everyday objects, a jeweler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s loupe (magnifier), and simple questions to develop higher order thinking skills, creativity and scientific literacy: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What is that like?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What else does it remind me of?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What else does it look like?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong> These analogies, written in the compressed form of metaphors and similes, become the bones-for-poems.<\/p>\n

Each of the children in Grade 5 wrote a poem after looking closely, through a loupe, at a scallop shell.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a couple of them.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you guess which shell they were looking at?\u00c2\u00a0 Can you see how the shells inspired their poems?<\/p>\n

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War Shell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barb wire getting boiled in molten lava<\/p>\n

Bullet wounds in fallen soldiers<\/p>\n

Blood on the white silver sand<\/p>\n

Tears of loved ones on the lonely bed<\/p>\n

Terrible cries of agony on the battlefield<\/p>\n

True and noble soldiers put to the test.<\/p>\n

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My Shell<\/strong><\/p>\n

An early morning sun<\/p>\n

Patterns like waves on the beach<\/p>\n

A racing cheetah in the forest<\/p>\n

Lines that are parallel,<\/p>\n

A sandy beach from a distance,<\/p>\n

Zig zag lightning strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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