Normally at this time of year, we write poems about the sound of falling rain. This year was a little different...
We put on our coats, mittens, gloves, and hats today at the beginning of writer's workshop. We went outside and stood silently for a minute to hear the snow falling all around (and on) us. Then, we walked back inside and wrote comparison poems about what falling snow sounds like. This was our first foray into poetry, with many more poems coming in the next few weeks, but students are already using interesting language and being very specific with the images they describe.
Here is what we wrote:
Falling snow sounds like someone’s shoveling the snow.
I put on my jacket and boots and mittens
Falling snow sounds like a soft pit, pat, pit, pat, coming down on your head and it is a soft little pit, pat that you will hear. And the car noise sounds like rain.
Falling snow sounds like little pebbles falling into a river. It also sounds like a coin falling into a river. It also sounds like a hard thing falling into water. It also sounds like water dripping onto a car or metal.
Falling snow sounds like little crinkling noises that are falling in the ocean and sinking all the way to the sand and then it smoothes through the ocean all the way to the other side and it starts all over and there was a truck beeping filled with snow.
Falling snow sounds like little people are creeping in my hood and my coat like crick crick and crick hardly also fast too!
Falling snow sounds like rain falling into a river or people throwing rocks into the river.
Falling snow sounds like pebbles plopping in a small river. It sounds like a clinking noise. It sounds like little stuff falling on the ground softly. It sounds like small crystals falling. I heard a snow plow.
Falling snow sounds like crackling fire on a rainy day. And also like hail falling into a river. Also the still beat of a flute/drum. And rain falling on an umbrella.
Falling snow sounds like people tossing hail into the river Tik Tik Tik and little drops of rain and someone hitting a pencil at a can.
Falling snow sounds like little pebbles falling in a river.
Falling snow sounds like pebbles falling.
Falling snow sounds like rain plip, plop all day, but my jacket hood was on my head making the plip, plop noise. We went outside just plip, plop I think for one or two seconds. It said plip, plop all day long if I was outside all day long.
Falling snow sounds like pop rocks popping in your mouth.
Falling snow sounds like stars falling into a calm gentle ocean.
Falling snow sounds like small waves in the still night.
Falling snow sounds like ice falling to the ground, making the soft sound cling cling and it sounded like rain.
Falling snow sounds like
pebbles skipping on the river.
Like chickens pecking on the ground.
Rain falling on a car, a car as blue as sky.
Sleet falling on that car as well.
The sounds of snow falling is peaceful, so cold.
Falling snow sounds like clinking rocks and crystals clinking. And a lot of nice shiny rocks and so much soft rocks. And a lot of car noises and a lot of people talking.
Falling snow sounds like gentle clinks falling from the sky and gentle plops. And it sounds like the North Pole snow!
Falling snow sounds like hail as gentle as a boiling pail with French fries in it. It sounds like rain falling on my cushion. It sounds like a soothing plip plip on the guitar. It sounds like a gentle waterfall.
Falling snow sounds like pop rocks popping in your mouth.
Falling snow sounds like your nails tapping on a table.
Falling snow sounds like rain in the sky and clicking noises too. And some cracking noise too.
Snow sounds like rain and tiny pieces of hail and people shoveling snow, when people slide, and people driving. And pat pat pat.
