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| Gardens > Activity 13 Write a Sunflower Poem Grades K through 6 Materials: Blackboard and chalk or butcher paper and marker; pencils and paper; crayons. Easy Instructions: Work together as a group to create a class poem; then work individually to copy your poem from the board and draw a picture to illustrate it (younger students) or write your own poem (older students). Older students may wish to write their own, improved or personalized version of the class poem--especially if their favorite thoughts or images were edited out in the group process. Encourage students who don’t like the narcissus activity or the class poem to write something funny or sarcastic or downright mean. Allow personal expression free reign, but insist on potent images and clear articulation. Here are our favorite sunflower poems to get you started. For more inspiration, you might also like to look at pictures of sunflowers as you gather descriptions, ideas, and images. SUN-FLOWERS, stop growing! If you touch the sky where those clouds are passing Like tufts of dandelion gone to seed, The sky will put you out! You know it is blue like the sea . . . Maybe it is wet, too! Your gold faces will be gone forever If you brush against that blue Ever so softly! Hilda Conkling from Poems by a Little Girl SUNFLOWER POEM One lonely sunflower growing in the sun Wants to play and have some fun Then whoosh went the wind And scattered all the seeds And now there's lots of sunflowers Playing in the breeze. Anonymous |