Creative writing continues to be an important component of virtually every writing program, and by mid-year, students in Molly Pilson’s 4th-grade classroom at Half Day School in Lincolnshire have done a lot of it. Three recently completed pieces are excerpted below.
From a booklet titled “The Reason Why …” by Katie Hovany, age 9, of Lincolnshire comes:
“The reason why Hershey’s Kisses have flat bottoms is . . . One day a truck driver was driving along with a load of them, then he crashed and PLUNK!!! The Kisses got their flat bottoms.”
From “Pain,” a poem by Kristen Zwiener, age 9, of Lincolnshire, comes:
It’s cold and damp,
I do not move.
The rain hits my head.
I feel the tears in my eyes
My feet are wet,
My clothes are damp,
But still I do not move.
And from “The Worst Day,” a poem by Rick Elgendy, age 10, of Lincolnshire, comes:
Then something fell
I recognized the sound of my shelf,
“Oh no, oh my”
I began to cry,
For my cards and comics were on that shelf
“I hate today!” I said to myself.
I was out of my house,
When I found out, My mouse had got out,
The little lout,
He was in fact,
More slippery than a trout.
He was the third mouse,
The little louse,
That got away,
This is the worst day!
