Our Holiday Poems

We have been using the Writing Process heavily as we published our first poem.  Please read their final drafts below!

I Hear Santa

Awake all night waiting for

Dear old Santa Claus.

He quickly fills my stocking and tree.

Whoosh!

He’s gone.

I swoosh down the stairs.

PRESENTS!!

By:  CW

 

Christmas Morning

I am coming downstairs in my warm pajamas

To open my brightly wrapped presents

I smell fresh baked cookies

It tickles my nose

I look in my stocking

I see something red and white,

It’s a candy cane!

I open my presents and it is a nerf gun

The pistols glow in the dark!

By: AS

Christmas

Blue ornaments hanging on the tree

Jingle bells jingling

Glittering lights hanging on the tree

And on my house

Santa is here!

By: AM

 

It’s Christmas in My House

I’m sleeping in my bed when I hear a sound

What can it be?

Is it a reindeer?  Yes! It is a reindeer.

A whole pack of them.

Then I hear a whoosh, it’s Santa!

He gives me a lot of presents.

They are cool.

I love Santa.

By: CH

 

When I Saw Santa Eating Something

Red and white minty smell tickles my nose

as I hear a cracking down below.

I run down the stairs to see who it is.

He has a red hat, a white long beard

and is carrying a bag of something.

Wrappers are spread out under the tree.

Hey!

It is Santa Claus eating a candy cane!

By: GH

Santa

I am Waiting for Santa

Can he be here?

I have to go see.

Santa eats my cookies and sipping milk.  His Jingle bells Sounds like Christmas.

He fills my Stocking and WHOOSH!

When I Wake up I Am Opening my Presents.

By: JT

Before the Night of Christmas

Sparkly colors on the tree

Very soft bell songs ring in the air

Tasty cookies fresh from the   oven

Hooray!

By  JL

 

The Night of Hanukkah

When I wake up in the morning

I see some presents colorfully wrapped.

And on that night

I smell yummy foods that make me excited.

So yummy I can’t resist!

I eat five or more.

I love Hanukkah!

By: LR

 

I See Santa

Sweet red and white candy hanging in my stocking

Candy crunching in my brother’s mouth

Red ribbons tied to my presents under the tree

And Santa munching cookies

Hooray!  Santa’s here!

By: TV

Best Day Ever!

Bright candles glow in the dark

A Boom! A Bam!

Colors fill the sky

The candles warm my chilly hands

Fresh Indian food makes me happy

Like awesome fireworks!

By VK

Relating Math to Science

Like scientists, mathematicians have questions that they want to find the answer to.  They propose a question, come up with a list of possible responses, then survey their audience by collecting data with tally marks.  We then make up a graph to communicate our results, using mode, median and mean to analyze what we found out.  This week, the students collected data about a packet of M&M's.  They sorted and classified, tallied and recorded, then showed their results in either a pie graph or bar graph.  We identified the mode in their graph (the number that occurs the most) and will be working on finding the median (middle number in the results), mean (average) and range (difference between least and most).