Four first grade students in Ms. Katherine Hanna’s class at the
Kennedy-Longfellow School took top honors in local poetry contests.
Marcel Medina won first place in the Harvard Coop Annual Poetry Contest for the K-1 grade range for his poem Corn.
In
the 14th Annual Cambridge Public Library & Cambridge Tree Project
Poetry Contest, three students from the class took first, second, and
third place prizes in the first grade category. The winners are: Aurora
Arruda – first place (tied) for her poem My Anger; Farris Omar- second
place (tied) for his poem My Dad; Alejandro Nolan- third place (tied)
for his poem Trees.
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Aurora Arruda, Farris Omar and Alejandro Nolan, Kennedy Longfellow
first graders at the Poetry Contest awards ceremony at Cambridge Public
Library May 24, 2012.
Check out the poems below:
Corn: By Marcel Medina
Corn on the cob
hot and juicy
like a crowd sitting
all in a row.
My Anger: By Aurora Arruda
When I am angry
the sky is blank
a stampede of buffalos
tramples me
a tornado sucked me into a swirl.
When I am angry
beetles bite me from
the inside out.
A tsunami drowns me
a volcano erupts
lava splashes on me.
When I am angry
my face turns red.
I could explode!
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My Dad: By Farris Omar
Dad
I love you
You are awesome and wonderful
I can tell you
anything.
Dad
I love you
I like when you
give me a goodnight kiss.
Dad
I love you
I know you love me
too.
Trees: By Alex Nolan (*Read backwards and forwards*)
Trees are great!
We breathe oxygen.
We breathe out carbon dioxide.
Trees breathe carbon dioxide.
Trees breathe out oxygen.
Without trees
we would die.
I love trees. |