This winter we utilized our taste buds and sank our teeth into the food curriculum where we wrote poems and stories about our favorite cuisines. Check out some of our favorite excerpts from the session below!
From an exercise about writing odes to favorite foods:
Oh, Sushi, Oh, Sushi. You're a wild animal. You taste like a flash of light. You look like you're going to hop like a cheetah into my mouth. You're going to stop everyone in world wars because you taste so good. Sushi makes freedom come out the door with feeling. Sushi jumps into my mouth!
- Jack
From an exercise about writing odes to favorite foods:
Oh, Chocolate Cake, you are the taste everyone calls gold. You smell like a rose swaying in the sunlight. You feel like a cloud moving slowly in my mouth. When I see chocolate cake my eyes burst into flames! You have the taste of my life.
- Sidney
From an exercise about writing odes to favorite foods:
Oh, Chip, My Love. How fresh you are! You crunch in my mouth as my white blades chomp into you. Oh, how you shatter into little bits. I taste your salty coat. My mouth starts to water.
- Amanda
From an exercise about writing odes to favorite foods:
Oh, Chicken Curry. You look like fish in the ocean. You feel like a slippery monkey bar. You smell of my home… India
- Maya
From a personification exercise in which students were asked to write from the point of view of fruit:
They Call Me the Lime. I'm green with envy because lemon gets all the credit. When you make limeade from me I get revenge and turn myself sour! And you know what? You can't listen any more. Why? …Because it's over.
- Miles
From an exercise about writing odes to favorite foods:
Oh, Chocolate Cake, how you make my mouth explode with flavor like a cloud bursting with rain. Your color looks like mud on the ground…
But you make my stomach feel so good.
- Lauren
From a poetry exercise using alliterative food descriptions:
Sleeping ice cream sandwich is slimy with a silky taste. Sleeping ice cream sandwich is stalking some stockings and silly socks while looking at his snakes doing the splits.
- Sophia
From an exercise about writing odes to favorite foods:
Ice cream is sweet. Ice cream is filling. Ice cream is paradise. Ice cream is in my mouth. Ice cream is gone. I am ice cream. Eat me if you would.
- Aidan
From an exercise about writing odes to favorite foods:
Chocolate Cake that crumbles in my mouth, slice after slice. That yummy little cake wouldn't mind if I take another slice… Soon it'll be gone, like an iguanadon. But I wouldn't cry… or even say goodbye!
- Josh
From a personification exercise in which students were asked to write from the point of view of fruit:
I love my life living in a shell. Shake, Shake, Boom! I just fell from the tree! Anyway, there will be no more interruptions Hey! Someone just picked me up! Now anyway, my name is Coco the Coconut. Sometimes I do wish I was a person, not a brown ball with juice inside. Wait a minute… they're cutting me open for a snack! I'm still around, but not for long…
- Aisling
From a personification exercise in which students were asked to write from the point of view of fruit:
I'm Angela the Apple, and I'd like to stay on this tree forever and play and eat popcorn. It feels like I'm dying when they pick me off the tree But if they don't I can plant a seed. That's a ball for apples!
- Adriana
From an exercise in which the kids wrote about their favorite personal qualities as recipe ingredients:
1 teaspoon of laughter 1 cup of reading mix while pouring in a pound of family Add a tablespoon of kindness 3 ounces of smartness slowly pour into a bowl and bake for an hour and a half Spring a pinch of soccer on top of it all Your Elijah is done!
- Elijah
As a break from the food curriculum, kids were given the beginnings of well-known proverbs and asked to write their own endings:
Never underestimate the power of... stars. You can lead a horse to water but... not food. Don’t bite the hand that... hurts. No news is... today. If you lie down with dogs you’ll... get better. Love all, trust... all. The pen is mightier than the... paper. Happy the bride who... is good.
- Isabelle
As a break from the food curriculum, kids were given the beginnings of well-known proverbs and asked to write their own endings:
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Cry and the whole world... frowns. Love all, trust... another. Better late than... sorry. Where there’s smoke there’s... frowns. A penny saved is... lucky. children should be seen and not... yelled at.
- Ava