Money Can't Buy Everything Poems

I first taught the the Money Can't Buy Everything poem template when I taught in public schools in Los Angeles in the mid-90's. My population of children couldn't have been more different to our kids at MIS. I love seeing how a project evolves over time and the way different children can take a writing project in a new direction. Enjoy the beautiful images created by your children and see how they use repetition to give their writing shape.

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my dad and grandpa
laughing together with their cups of coffee,
sitting in chairs, money can't buy
me and my grandpa.
Money can't buy me and Joe shooting
nerf gun bullets at each other at his house.
Money can't buy me and Tanner having a
nerf gun fight against Tanner's dad.
Money can't buy my class playing dodgeball!
Money can't buy a camp with a green campfire.
Money can't buy the next world.
Money can't buy the future and the past.
Money can't buy everything...
Money can't buy a soccer ball getting
kicked around in a soccer ball game,
money can't buy a volleyball tournament at Big Sky,
money can't buy a basketball game in action...
Money can't buy everything!!!!

-Benjamin Richardson

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my sister
playing with her tree house dolls.
Money can't buy my mom,
reading her magazine.
Money can't buy my dad,
watching the Michigan game and
money can't buy my brother,
studying Japanese.

Money can't buy the rainforest and
the juicy fruits that grow there.
Money can't buy the woods and
all the fox and deer and rabbits
that live there.
Money can't buy the rivers that are
as sparkly and fast as a shooting star.

Money can't buy Bruce playing Star Wars,
money can't buy Joseph drawing mushrooms,
money can't buy Emiliano playing Halo-wars,
money can't buy Feris playing bouncy ball,
money can't buy my friend Evan playing Mario Cart Wii.

Money can't buy my family's love.
Money can't buy my talents.
Money can't buy my knowledge.
Money can't buy my joy in life.

-Ian

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the silver and gold river by my old house.
Money can't buy my fabulous rat named Lulu when
she plays peak-a-boo with me.
Money can't buy the golden sun that shines down
at me everyday.
MOney can't buy me and my friends shining smiles.
Money can't buy me and my family watching a movie and
laughing our hearts out.
Money can't buy the smile on my face when I get a goal in soccer.
Money can't buy me and my friend Ana doing gymnastics and having fun.
Money can't buy the place I everyday where I learn and
that place is called school.
Money can't buy my fabulous teachers named Patricia and Gillian.
Money can't buy school, love, friendship and money
can't buy my teachers.
Money can't buy my family.

-Wren


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the happiness of me and my sister
snuggled up reading.
Money can't buy the happiness of me and my dad
playing tennis.
Money can't buy the feeling of being with my mom.
Money can't buy the beautiful colored fall,
the deer racing through the woods.
Money can't buy nature at all.
Money can't buy friendship with all my wonderful friends playing.
Money can't buy that!
There's nothing like skiing down Discovery with Paige!
Money can't buy that.
Money can't buy canoing with my family.
Money can't buy tubing down the river with my sister or
doing Girl Scouts with my friends.
Money can't buy love, friendship, family.
Money can't buy wonderful things!

-Dana


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the pleasure of sprinting down
the springy track as the finish gets
closer and closer by the second.
Money can't buy the feeling of embarrassment
as I stand up from the wreckage of
a pretty bad ski accident.
Money can't buy the feeling of sitting
on a small plane soaring through the atmosphere.
Money can't buy the quiet, sparkling snow that
lands on the tall pine trees in the
outstretched wilderness.
Money can't buy Nina's small, cute and
chubby hands when she was small.

-Will

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy a family.
It can't even buy love.
It can't buy the beautiful river sparkling
up at me like a big sparkle.
It can't buy the moon sparkling down at me
deep in the night when the wolves howl,
ow! ow! ow! ow!
It can't buy the beautiful nature where
the animals run free in the sunset,
wind blowing through tree to tree and
through piece to piece of grass when
the birds sing in the summer.
Money can't buy the winter when all
the animals hibernate and sleep, when the
snow falls and a hard wind blows.
Money can't buy fall when the red and yellow
leaves fall and a cold breeze blows and
the tree wave softly in the air,
when people are raking the leaves
and bees buzz in the air.

-Ellie Swanson




Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy sitting on the cozy, comfy couch,
it can't buy my annoying but fun sister
playing with me at night when everybody's' asleep.
It can't buy my tall dad playing baseball with me.
It can't buy me sneaking up with my mom cozily reading.
Money can't buy the river of life swaying.
Money can't buy the trees dancing in the wind,
it can't the salty and scaly fish that swim in the ocean.
Money can't buy the smile on my friend's faces,
it can't buy them running in the breeze or
having freezing cold snowball fights.
Money can't buy knowledge and
money can't buy love.

-Maya

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my mom when she
reads to me at night.
Money can't buy my dad telling me stories.
Money can't buy Madelyn playing with me
in the snow.
Money can't buy me and Nate playing cards.
Money can't buy me and Max swinging on the
swings and monkey bars.

Money can't buy the big blue sky flying by.
Money can't buy the sun over me.
Money can't buy the tall trees over me.

Money can't buy me skiing down the hill.
I feel so happy when I play the violin.
Money can't buy the feeling of swimming in the pool.

-Marcus

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy the smile across my face when
my mom has a moment of joy, peace and happiness.
Money can't buy the happiness when me and my sister
have a snowball fight and laugh when someone
gets hit in the face.

Money can't buy the happiness of sharing a toy with a friend.
Money can't buy the joy of me and Ben having a nerf gun fight
with Judah and Liam as we climb trees and ambush each other.
Money can't buy the hope that the little rocket
of a football with soar into your hands and you
will score a touchdown with all of your friends
cheering you on.

Money can't buy the snow that falls down
every single winter that children shape
to make snowmen, snow angels and snow forts.
Money can't buy the world's fireworks display
that happens every single fall and the gunfire
slowly falls down to the grassy, green ground.

Money can't buy the air rushing through your helmet and
the joy of flying that puck into the goal.
Money can't buy the joy of faking out the goalie and scoring.
Money can't buy the throw that Benjamin Jeffery Vetter
can throw a football.
Money can't buy the swing of a baseball bat at that baseball.
Money can't buy everything.

-Calvin

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the happiness of me and my sister
snuggled up reading





Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the loving eyes of my mom
as they sparkle in the morning light.
Money can't buy the strong arms of my dad
whisking me up to look at the stars.
Money can't buy my brother's wisdom,
teaching me everything I need to know.
Money can't buy my cats curling up
to me with mischievous grins.

Money can't buy Eliana's laugh,
showing me we are the best of friends.
Money can't buy Antigone's lovely face,
full of love and kindness.

Money can't buy the cold wind,
encouraging me to dress warmer.
Money can't buy blooming flowers,
singing to the bluebirds,
money can't buy the dazzling sea,
each wave bring a silky white foam.
Money can't buy my life's meaning,
to enjoy myself to my heart's content.

-Estrella

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy Max's face when he's happy.
Money can't buy my mom's black cat hair.
Money can't buy my dad's soft voice when he reads me to sleep.
Money can't buy me and Dana playing in the snow.
Money can't buy me and Maya watching movies on Friday night.
Money can't buy me and Whitney playing board games together.
Money can't buy me and Dana skiing on a Sunday afternoon.
Money can't buy the green pine trees.

-Paige




Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy Chloe.
It can't buy the happiness that spreads
all around and that little smile
that spreads across her face.
Money can't buy her smart, intelligent drawings
that used to be scribble.
Money can't buy friends like
Ben Vetter or Will Erving.
Money can't buy their friendship
that spreads through the playground
like Hussein Bolt running
in the Olympics,
that happiness that races through the field
as we play football on the playground.
Nature is a thing that money can't buy.
Nature has many things in it
that money can't buy.

-Jack

MOney Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
MOney can't buy family.
Money can't buy my kind mom
when she helps me with my homework.
It can't buy my dad's great storytelling.
It can't buy Liam when we play puppy together.
Money can't buy Sadie when she makes me laugh
when she asks me to play talking shoes.
Money can't buy nature that is so cool because
there are dogs, horses, cats, all sorts of
wild sorts of creatures.

-Collin

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
MOney can't buy the time I spend walking around
Boston with my aunt,
money can't buy the time I spend doing art with my uncle
in his basement, money can't buy me and my mom
baking cookies, or me and my dad watching a baseball game
in the living room.

Money can't buy me and my dog playing in the backyard.
Money can't buy me and Whitney and Dana playing in the
snow under the glistening stars,
money can't buy the two big oak trees
in our yard that I play in.
Money can't buy me a beautiful walk in the park.

-Ella

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the happiness
that spreads



Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
It can't buy the giant skittle smile on my sister's face
when she finishes the vault at a gymnastics meet.

You would think that money could buy my
family snuggling up for a trilogy on our cozy,
giant blue couch. It can't buy that.

Money can't buy the excitement of my dad as he
won the amazing, "Price is Right" in sunny California.

IT can't buy my brave friends standing up for me
at recess, or when we chitty chat for hours
about random, funny stuff.
Nope, it can't buy my friends.

Money can't buy the leaves changing from
shivering frozen to sunny delights.

Neither can it buy the joy of when my pencil
hits the paper rapidly.

Money can't buy feelings.

-Liza

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my dad
who taught me how to play basketball and
when my mom helps me with my homework.
Money can't buy when I play with Chloe, Jacob and Jack.
Money can't buy nature when I go up to the
cabin to play and to swim in the dazzling water.
Money can't buy my friendships.
I never want to separate again with Liza.
Money can't buy my connections with Gillian and Avery.
Money can't buy fall with the falling red, orange and pink leaves.
Money can't buy winter when the sparkling snow falls
on the tramp and then me and my family jump.
But most of all, money can't buy kindness and friendship.

-Sophie



Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy me and my dad
having the best time ever
building the lego universe all around my room.
Money can't buy me and my best friends
having a great time in snowball fights
in the cold, shining snow.
Money can't buy the dazzling snow
that falls from the white clouds in the
bright, big, blue sky in the winter wonderland.
It can't buy the birds that fly, sing and
dance in the sky.

-Hayden

Money Can't Buy Everything

You know, money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy me and my friends
playing with legos or
zooming my remote control cars around
and bashing them into furniture and
making my mom mad.
That's another thing money can't buy,
my mom and her awesome feelings.
Money can't buy me and my extra tall dad,
going crazy and wrestling.
Money can't buy me and my cousins when
we're running on a beach on Hornby
or swimming in the tide of the ocean on our
awesome skim boards.
Green paper and silver circles can't buy everything.

-Aidan
Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
It can't buy the giant skittle smile on my sister's face
when she finishes the vault at a gymnastics meet.

You would think that money could buy my
family snuggling up for a trilogy on our cozy,
giant blue couch. It can't buy that.

Money can't buy the excitement of my dad as he
won the amazing, "Price is Right" in sunny California.

IT can't buy my brave friends standing up for me
at recess, or when we chitty chat for hours
about random, funny stuff.
Nope, it can't buy my friends.

Money can't buy the leaves changing from
shivering frozen to sunny delights.

Neither can it buy the joy of when my pencil
hits the paper rapidly.

Money can't buy feelings.

-Liza

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my dad
who taught me how to play basketball and
when my mom helps me with my homework.
Money can't buy when I play with Chloe, Jacob and Jack.
Money can't buy nature when I go up to the
cabin to play and to swim in the dazzling water.
Money can't buy my friendships.
I never want to separate again with Liza.
Money can't buy my connections with Gillian and Avery.
Money can't buy fall with the falling red, orange and pink leaves.
Money can't buy winter when the sparkling snow falls
on the tramp and then me and my family jump.
But most of all, money can't buy kindness and friendship.

-Sophie



Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy me and my dad
having the best time ever
building the lego universe all around my room.
Money can't buy me and my best friends
having a great time in snowball fights
in the cold, shining snow.
Money can't buy the dazzling snow
that falls from the white clouds in the
bright, big, blue sky in the winter wonderland.
It can't buy the birds that fly, sing and
dance in the sky.

-Hayden

Money Can't Buy Everything

You know, money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy me and my friends
playing with legos or
zooming my remote control cars around
and bashing them into furniture and
making my mom mad.
That's another thing money can't buy,
my mom and her awesome feelings.
Money can't buy me and my extra tall dad,
going crazy and wrestling.
Money can't buy me and my cousins when
we're running on a beach on Hornby
or swimming in the tide of the ocean on our
awesome skim boards.
Green paper and silver circles can't buy everything.

-Aidan






Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the connection between
me and my dogs,
it can't buy the smile on my face
when I get to spend time with my cousin.
It can't buy the love I share with my family.
Money can't buy the first snowfall of
glistening, white and fluffy snow.
It can't buy the red and yellow leaves
that fall from the trees in the fall.
It can't buy the animals, little or big.
It can't buy the rain that falls on me in spring.
Money can't buy the wed that connects me and my friends,
it can't buy all the adventures me and my friends share,
it can't buy the kind words that my friends give me.
Money can't buy everything.

-Gillian


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
It doesn't cost money to make up games
and then play them with my family.
Nature is not to buy,
only to walk, pick up and four wheel drive.
My friend's like to play football and it's
always free to throw a ball.
Happiness is not to buy because it is so important.

-Nate

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my brother and I wrestling.
Money can't buy me swimming
in he nice, cool water
down at the lake.
Money can't buy me petting my dog.
Money can't buy my cat running
across the house and knocking me down.
Money can't buy my mom and dad and
eating golden fresh waffles.
That is what money can't buy.

-Garet



Money can't buy


Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my two wonderful cants
when they lick me on my neck and
when my dad took me to the aquarium,
I felt spectacular and when my mom
took me to my best friend's and on the
I had the best time I ever had.
Once me and my friend had a soccer game
against each other. That was one of the
funnest times we had together,
me and Olivia.
And when me and my friend played catch
with a yoga ball, we both got hit on the head
and we were on a mini-trampoline
and then, WHACK! on the head.
Money can't buy me hiking on the hill
behind my house and seeing deer, elk,
two baby foxes and a pair of sheep.

-Miko


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my family.
Money can't buy my mom that is so
sweet like a sweet water drop
on a leaf, just sitting there,
sweetly. Or money can't buy my Bopy,
he's great, like a little beetle
just sitting there, happily.
Money can't buy my sister,
her art fills me with joy.
Sometimes I can see her art come alive.
Money can't buy my cute but wild brother,
he is so wild, it is like a big roller coaster.
Money can't buy everything.

-Lily


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
It doesn't cost money to make up games
and then play them with my family.
Nature is not to buy,
only to walk, pick up and four wheel drive.
My friend's like to play football and it's
always free to throw a ball.
Happiness is not to buy because it is so important.

-Nate

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my brother and I wrestling.
Money can't buy me swimming
in he nice, cool water
down at the lake.
Money can't buy me petting my dog.
Money can't buy my cat running
across the house and knocking me down.
Money can't buy my mom and dad and
eating golden fresh waffles.
That is what money can't buy.

-Garet



Money can't buy


Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my two wonderful cants
when they lick me on my neck and
when my dad took me to the aquarium,
I felt spectacular and when my mom
took me to my best friend's and on the
I had the best time I ever had.
Once me and my friend had a soccer game
against each other. That was one of the
funnest times we had together,
me and Olivia.
And when me and my friend played catch
with a yoga ball, we both got hit on the head
and we were on a mini-trampoline
and then, WHACK! on the head.
Money can't buy me hiking on the hill
behind my house and seeing deer, elk,
two baby foxes and a pair of sheep.

-Miko


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my family.
Money can't buy my mom that is so
sweet like a sweet water drop
on a leaf, just sitting there,
sweetly. Or money can't buy my Bopy,
he's great, like a little beetle
just sitting there, happily.
Money can't buy my sister,
her art fills me with joy.
Sometimes I can see her art come alive.
Money can't buy my cute but wild brother,
he is so wild, it is like a big roller coaster.
Money can't buy everything.

-Lily


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
It doesn't cost money to make up games
and then play them with my family.
Nature is not to buy,
only to walk, pick up and four wheel drive.
My friend's like to play football and it's
always free to throw a ball.
Happiness is not to buy because it is so important.

-Nate

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my brother and I wrestling.
Money can't buy me swimming
in he nice, cool water
down at the lake.
Money can't buy me petting my dog.
Money can't buy my cat running
across the house and knocking me down.
Money can't buy my mom and dad and
eating golden fresh waffles.
That is what money can't buy.

-Garet



Money can't buy


Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my two wonderful cants
when they lick me on my neck and
when my dad took me to the aquarium,
I felt spectacular and when my mom
took me to my best friend's and on the
I had the best time I ever had.
Once me and my friend had a soccer game
against each other. That was one of the
funnest times we had together,
me and Olivia.
And when me and my friend played catch
with a yoga ball, we both got hit on the head
and we were on a mini-trampoline
and then, WHACK! on the head.
Money can't buy me hiking on the hill
behind my house and seeing deer, elk,
two baby foxes and a pair of sheep.

-Miko


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my family.
Money can't buy my mom that is so
sweet like a sweet water drop
on a leaf, just sitting there,
sweetly. Or money can't buy my Bopy,
he's great, like a little beetle
just sitting there, happily.
Money can't buy my sister,
her art fills me with joy.
Sometimes I can see her art come alive.
Money can't buy my cute but wild brother,
he is so wild, it is like a big roller coaster.
Money can't buy everything.

-Lily

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
It doesn't cost money to make up games
and then play them with my family.
Nature is not to buy,
only to walk, pick up and four wheel drive.
My friend's like to play football and it's
always free to throw a ball.
Happiness is not to buy because it is so important.

-Nate

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my brother and I wrestling.
Money can't buy me swimming
in he nice, cool water
down at the lake.
Money can't buy me petting my dog.
Money can't buy my cat running
across the house and knocking me down.
Money can't buy my mom and dad and
eating golden fresh waffles.
That is what money can't buy.

-Garet



Money can't buy


Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my two wonderful cants
when they lick me on my neck and
when my dad took me to the aquarium,
I felt spectacular and when my mom
took me to my best friend's and on the
I had the best time I ever had.
Once me and my friend had a soccer game
against each other. That was one of the
funnest times we had together,
me and Olivia.
And when me and my friend played catch
with a yoga ball, we both got hit on the head
and we were on a mini-trampoline
and then, WHACK! on the head.
Money can't buy me hiking on the hill
behind my house and seeing deer, elk,
two baby foxes and a pair of sheep.

-Miko


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my family.
Money can't buy my mom that is so
sweet like a sweet water drop
on a leaf, just sitting there,
sweetly. Or money can't buy my Bopy,
he's great, like a little beetle
just sitting there, happily.
Money can't buy my sister,
her art fills me with joy.
Sometimes I can see her art come alive.
Money can't buy my cute but wild brother,
he is so wild, it is like a big roller coaster.
Money can't buy everything.

-Lily

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the happiness and excitement
I feel when my dad and I ski jump in our backyard.
Money can't buy the excitement of
what will come next in the book my
mom's reading to me.
Money can't buy the scariness of going exploring
and seeing all the fascinating creatures in nature.
Money can't buy me when I'm outside camping.
It gets me excited.
Money can't buy me and my friends
when we are playing together.

-Julian

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy a silly little sister like mine.
Money can't buy my smart big sister.
Money can't buy my dad skiing with me down a black diamond.
Money can't buy my mom making sushi with me.

Money can't buy the big trees that I climb in the summer.
Money can't buy the leaf piles I jump in in fall.
Money can't buy making snowmen in winter.
Money can't buy the butterflies that fly in the spring.

-Max

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy me and my dad
uni cycling at a hotel.
Money can't buy me and my brother
wrestling at home in the living room.
Money can't buy me and my mom
walking through Albertson's in the sunlight.
Money can't buy me and my mom watching a movie.

Money can't buy Benjamin and I tackling Ian at recess.
Money can't buy Benjamin running from me or
playing army in the day with Joe.

Money can't buy me beating up my brothers in summer,
Or me playing with my friend Aden in summer.
Money can't buy tubing with your dad and brothers.
Money can't buy playing Star Wars on the lawn.

Money can't buy me doing side splits in Tae Kwan Do.
Money can't buy me doing kicks.

-Bruce

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the fast, sparkling river as a
beaver swims down it.
Money can't buy flowers that swing from side to side.
Money can't buy the taste of bananas that are
as sweet as an apple.

Money can't buy my mother that hugs me before I g to bed.
Money can't buy my brother as we jump on the trampoline.
Money can't buy my cousin Casidy that is like a sweet mother.

Money can't buy my friend Lily that is caring.
Money can't buy my friend Sage that is just like chocolate.
Money can't buy my friend Feris that gets tackled by Micah.

Money can't buy winter white snowflakes.
Money can't buy winter when I ice skate on the road.
Money can't buy winter when we make snowmen.

Money can't buy everything.

-Marie


Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy me and my brother
sledding down a big mountain.
Money can't buy me and my family
tubing down the Clark Fork River on a hot, sunny day.
Money can't buy me and my family
walking up the big mountain, the "M."
Money can't buy me and my brother waking up on Christmas morning.

Money can't buy having an epic nerf gun war with Judah,
modifying Lego sets with Zach,
skiing down Bad Finger on a sunny day with Calvin.

Money can't buy the soft, white snow at Discovery,
the big, dark green trees in the forest,
the orange, big maple leaves in the fall.

Money can't buy everything.

-Ben Vetter

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the loving kindness in Ruby's heart.
Money can't buy Grandma's love that surrounds
me on a summer day.
Money can't buy my amazing imagination.

Money can't buy Piper's huge smile.
Money can't buy Hannah's hands that work so beautifully.
Money can't buy Gretel's golden curls.

Money can't buy the colorful flowers that bloom in the spring.
Money can't buy a tiny tree growing slowly.
Money can't buy the snowflakes that fall on my head.

Money can't buy me and mommy
skiing swiftly down the mountain.
Money can't buy building a snow fort to sleep in.
Money can't buy everything.

-Ellie Jenni

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy my brother and me
talking in the car about Pokemon.
Money can't buy me and my sister
getting bubbles everywhere on the driveway.
Money can't buy me and my mom
running through the neighborhood when we get home.

Money can't buy Bruce as he falls
in the snow and us running down
the ice hill and face plant
our heads in snow.
Money can't buy me nailing Ben
in the head with a nerf dart.
Money can't buy me on the hill
nailing girls in the head with snow,
especially Piper.

Money can't buy the feeling of me eating Domino's pizza.
Money can't buy me playing with Ben in the pool.
Money can't buy me reading The Lost Hero in the car
while we drive to swimming.

-Joeseph

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy the cool breeze floating past you.
Money can't buy the snow floating, dancing, falling all around you.
Money can't buy imagination
in your mind and brain whizzing past you.

Money can't buy all the colors in the world,
the colors blue, green, lime green, black and
many more colors.
Money can't buy animals playing in the glorious world.
Money can't buy the stars twinkling in the
pitch dark black and blue night sky.
Money can't buy the night sky
with specks glowing all around called stars.

Money can't buy my mama and me
reading stories together on the couch.
Money can't buy my papa reading
chapter after chapter
to me in the night.

Money can't buy my happy family or
the glorious nature.

-Sage

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money cannot buy everything.
Money cannot buy my chickens when they make the
funniest clucking noises.
Money cannot buy the indescribable smell of the
snug book bindery where my mom works.
Money can't buy the orange walls of my dad's office at the cafe.
Nor can it buy the laughter me and my sisters share by
tickling each other with wheat downstairs near the
ping pong table in the cafe basement.
Money cannot buy the look on Estrella's face when we are eating
cookies in the basement of her house,
it cannot buy the fun me and Estrella have making a hide out
in one of the window wells at her house.
Money cannot buy me, Attie, Mabel and Lorraine
wading in the cold, rippling river in their yard
or doing tricks on their bouncy trampoline.
Money cannot buy jumping off our floating dock with
my cousins at Seely Lake.
It cannot buy the laughter of my baby cousin when
I play ball with him or do plays with my younger cousins.
Money can't buy the feeling of how much I will miss
holding my baby cousin Delphine.
Money cannot buy the feeling of my mom hugging me tight
before I get into my bed.
Money cannot buy how happy I am at night when
my dad reads books to me and my sisters.
Money cannot buy the fun me and Attie have when
we play witches outside in the summertime.
It cannot buy the feeling of pretending to be in a flying car,
or on the Hogwarts Express, pretending to see
fields and forests. Money cannot buy how cute my little sister Thalia looks
in her angry birds shirt.
Money cannot buy the loads of fun I had playing the role
of a crab in the play, "Blackbeard the Pirate."
Money cannot buy everything.

-Eliana

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy family.
Family, it's too strong,
it's hopeless if you try to break the bond.
Nope, wrong number.
Family sticks like super glue.
If you bike super fast with your family
you still can't get away.
They will always catch up and
be there for you.

Money can't buy going to the gym
and shooting hoops with my dad.
It can't buy the feeling of when I swim
a race in the water. It makes me feel
super. It's really fun.
Money can't buy my brothers when
they help me build a fort.
They help me do a lot of things
like helping me build a ginormous
sand castle.
Most of all, money can't buy
love or family.

-Finn

Money Can't Buy Everything

Money can't buy everything.
Money can't buy when me and Eden play
hide and go seek all over
my clear, long, tall house.
Money can't buy the feeling
of reading in my queen bed on my
blue blanket with flowers on it
with my mom.
Money can't buy the way I ski at
Snowbowl in the glistening sunlight
with my dad.

Money can't buy the golden red velvet
color of the maple trees leaves and the
color of the green grass in the fall.

Money can't buy the magnificent sun
that warms me up with happy thoughts.

Money can't buy the feeling when I run outside
in the summertime with my puppy trailing behind me.

Money can't buy the fun times me and my family have
when we go ice-skating in the wintertime.

Money can't buy the time I went horseback riding
on a spring afternoon.

Money can't buy nature and family.

-Avery

I Am poems

Today's writing exercise was inspired by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge's book, Poem Crazy. We continue to discuss the importance of using strong details and strong action to make our poems come to life. Here they identify themselves in a new way by answering questions such as, If I were a number, what number would I be? What sound? What animal? What element in nature? Once again, the children describe themselves in illuminating and fascinating ways.

I Am...

I am a tiger.
I am green.
I am a boy.
I can be green,
paint green,
marker green,
crayon green and
green pencil.

I am a grape,
I don't want to be eaten,
hahaha!

I am lightening crash,
storm starter,
hahaha!

-Oliver

I Am...

I am an owl, sitting in a tree,
waiting for a mouse to run across the field.
Snatch!
I am a violin playing soft music,
putting a baby to sleep with the
soft, comforting music.

I am the wind pulling leaves up
from the lake and sweeping them
into the sky.

I am a fawn leaping through the leaves
and trees, right behind my mother.

I am the grass whistling through the wind,
just waiting for something to happen.

I am a fish leaping out of the water
then going back into the sparkling,
crystal clear water.

I am the sun shining over the earth,
on every little thing.

-Gillian

I am a giant making
thunder out of his foot.
Most people get electrocuted
from the foot of the giant.
When the people get thundered
they have lightening
out of their foot.

-Beck

I Am...


I Am...

I am the color green
I am a giraffe walking gracefully and silently.
I am the marvelous number 13.
I am a Granny Smith apple in a china bowl
with many other fruits waiting to be gobbled up.
I am my twenty acres of my family's property
full of pine trees, rocks, wildlife and gorgeous creeks.
I am a cozy bed in a bedroom waiting for my
job of keeping people comfy during their slumber.
I am a little xylophone playing a playful tune.
I am a daisy in a vase as a centerpiece on a
table on someone's anniversary.
I am a beautiful oak holding a tree house in
a child's backyard.
I am the miraculous, amazing hum of a hummingbird.
I am the sound of shivering, icy water flowing
in a waterfall.
I am...
home.

-Hannah B.

I Am...

I am a purple flower with soft petals like a cloud, waving in the wind, making no sound at all.
I am a soft and sweet puppy with spots all over, looking for food.
I am a waffle steaming with the scent of syrup glazing around the room, just sitting there peeking from over the plate.
I am a juicy, delectable, red scrumptious apple, sitting all alone.
I am a flying candy cane, all sugary and sweet, the taste of peppermint filling my taste buds with glee.
And finally, I am a frog looking around and admiring everything.

-Whitney

I Am...

I am blue.
I am a puppy just begging for someone to take me.
I am bursting with energy.
I am the mountains.
I am the Earth, with all the delight.
I am leaping though the sky.
I am blowing with the wind.
I am a cat climbing the mighty tree.
I am peeping with excellent peeps.
I am a veterinarian.
I am saving animals in danger.
I am a mouse scurrying, trying to beat my saucy friends to the cheese.
I am an explorer.
I am scurrying under those rocks, trying to get away from those giant things trying to catch me in that little cave.
I am cartwheeling through the sky.
I am flying like fairies.
That is what I am!

-Nina

I Am...

I am a fly with googly eyes, buzzing in the classroom, hitting all the walls and trying to get out. Bzzz! Let me out!
I am a giant, stomping and smashing everyone's houses. Boom! Bang! Smashing all of the people so he can have that world for himself.
I am grape juice and purple and squirting juicy in everyone's mouth as they eat me. Squirtch! Squirtch! Oh no! Help me!
I am the best version of myself when I help cook with my mom when she's setting the table sometimes.
And also when I try to be nice to my siblings and do my chores, like clean up and brush teeth.
Also when I dance or take down the laundry to the washer and dryer.
Finally, when I read and look at the pictures in the World Record book.

-Sophie

I am a creepy crawly ant, climbing up an oak tree, scuttling for food as I squeeze into the cracks of the oak.
I am yellow, zapping with lightning in the electrifying sky.
I am snowy, breezy Mt. Everest, where I lay, King of the World, with people and animals shifting from place to place, looking for food.

-Hayden

I Am...

I am a big piece of pumpkin pie, sweet yummy pie getting ready to get gobbled down.
I am lucky number three - one of the small ones, but I am lucky.
I am the nice wave coming onto the beach, the salty wave.
I am a shadow of three moving branches.

-Garet

I Am...

I am an owl sitting in a tree, waiting for a mouse to run across the field... snatch!
I am a violin playing soft music, putting a baby to sleep with the soft comforting music.
I am the wind pulling leaves up from the lake and sweeping them into the sky.
I am a fawn leaping through the leaves and trees, right behind my mother.
I am the grass whistling through the wind, just waiting for something to happen.
I am a fish leaping out of the water, then going back into the sparkling crystal clear water.
I am the sun shining over the Earth, on every little thing.

-Gillian

I Am...

I am as blue as the sea...
I am like a speed ball...
I am a sparrow and a flower...
I am number three!
I am a Lego missing from the box...
I am a pink, rosy pie...
I am a violin playing in the miracle land...
I am a green pine tree in the forest...
But I am the last one!

-Benjamin Richardson

I Am...

I am a loud scream.
I am a clown eating
yummy jelly beans.
I am, "Thriller"
scaring the whole town.
I want to be a sushi man
living in a sushi world.

-Max

I Am...

I am a juicy apple, waiting to be eaten.
I am a piece of pumpkin pie,
full of pumpkin and I am nice and delicious.
I am a heart flying around in a body.
I am filled with love.
I am a beautiful bird, singing in the
wonderful, blistering wind up in the tree.
I am a beautiful bluejay.
I am as blue as the ocean.
I am a beautiful red fox.
I am as red a leaf.

-Ellie Swanson

I Am...

I am a sea urchin in the cool water
moving on the bottom of the sea.
I am a penguin sliding on teh ice,
feeling the wind on my wings.
I am a mother Earth,
protecting my children.
I am a warm bed,
waiting to be slept on.

-Wren

I Am...

I am red,
a red roaring fire
burning, destroying everything
in my path.
I am a football stadium,
roaring all the time,
full of action and energy.
I'm a fighter jet
rumbling and spreading fear
through the onlookers down below.
I am sizzling hot sauce,
spicy burning liquid,
ruining wonderful food.

-Will

I Am...

I am a turquoise ocean with a breeze
flowing calmly as the waves
splash against the shore.
I am the wind, gently brushing against
your unbreakable heart.
I am lightening, rapidly striking your mind.
I am an elephant with giant, floppy ears
flapping up and down with joy.
I am a gesture of music,
your friendly soother.
I am the number of multiplied mandys,
trying to hide,
no one will share.
I am a rolly, spinny, comfy chair
rolling from desk to desk.

-Liza

I am a songbird singing my
little heart out all day
while the sun turns bright
pink and orange like there's
a pomegranate in the sky,
waiting to be picked.
I am number one,
each number bows down to me like
little crumbs falling from the sky with
Slam! and a boom!
I'm a big fat lobster
steamed in lemon.

-Miko

I Am...

I am a hamster racing around and around
on it's wheel,
spinning, running, never stopping.
I am a musical note, soft, sweet,
just hanging on a line.
I am a bowl of warm noodles waiting
to be devoured.
I am sweet number one,
always there to help other numbers.
I am the loud, rambunctious
color green.

-Ella

I Am...

I am a big mob of chaos
stirring up trouble.
I am as loud as ten times louder
than how much those preschoolers
cream in a day.
I am very annoying and crazy,
my drawings are all scribbly,
my voice is all scratchy.
I am spicy, fiery hot dogs and pizza
and all spicy foods.
One day I will be
a big ball of flame.

-Ian

I Am...

I am a sad piece of dirt in the
backyard, brown like burnt bread
steaming and sizzling.

I am a bolt of lightening streaking through
the night sky, zooming past houses,
flying like the wind but
sometimes peaceful like a bug
but when a bug gets mad
so do I and then the
bee stings it's annoyer
but unlike the bee,
I let my anger out
on a pencil and snap it in half
CRACK!

I am black like night
shadowy and scary, freaky
but amazing.
I am an explorer, exploring
the lost city of Atlantis
with it's pillars and gold.

I am moss in a cave like night
with it's icicles so clear
you can see through them.

I am so fun that I am amazing,
I love yellow and make mushrooms.
I am cool and funny.

I am clean and neat.
I am smart.
My mom thought that piranhas
lived in the ocean.

I am silver like a silver slab.
I am a tiger.
I am a vine strangling
other trees. They are so tall
but no match for vines.
I am a leaf falling off a tree.
I am so amazing.
I am a river of silky milk.
I am swift.

-Joseph

I Am...

I am a black bird
singing in the glorious sunset
in the grassy marsh.

I am a guitar
rocking out
on the big stage
while people watch
me play.

I am a sweet pomegranate
tumbling into a person's stomach.

I am a big pine tree
growing very tall
in the quiet woods.

-Emiliano

I Am...

I am a green bold in the sky.
I am a bowl of shredded cheddar cheese
waiting to be eaten.
I am summer sun for the beach
where the boys and girls lie on towels.
I am number one and always will be.
I am, "Beat It" and have no one to sing me.
I am a cute monkey stuffed animal
in a boy's loft bed.

-Bruce

I Am...

I am a piece of rhubarb pie
at a birthday party with
thousands of kids,
a tiny mouse sneaks out of a hole in the ground
and gobbles me up.
I am a lynx walking swiftly over
deep snow without sinking in.
I am mud.
Mud like melted chocolate,
kids play on me and get
stuck in my skin.
I am number nine.
Nine is almost ten and
farther than eight.
I am the color green
painted on an abstract picture.
Someday, I would like to
soar like a bird.

-Ellie Jenni

I Am...

I am a basketball
bouncing through the air.
I am green like grass.
I am a warthog going crazy,
splashing mud everywhere.
I am a bowl of cereal,
waiting to be splashed into
a water slide.
I am a lightening bolt that
zooms through the air like
an airplane ready to land.
I am a nerf gun getting ready
to be launched into the air.
I am a lego brick,
getting ready to be pounded into
a police station.

-Ben

I Am...

I am a blue jay in my tiny next,
singing songs to May, June and July.
I am purple like a giant, fuzzy, warm
cozy, soft pillow.
I am a brown and white racehorse
running faster than any other horse,
his hooves digging up the ground behind me.
I am a giant, foamy wave washing up
on the sandy beach.
I am a fresh sushi roll waiting
to be served next to some
rock and rolls.
I am a Twister mat,
twisting people into knots.
My green and blue circles
stretch little girls and boys legs.
I am a microscopic person walking around the globe,
going wherever I want.
I am a dark blue water bottle
with light blue designs
and a red top,
sitting on the counter
waiting to be taken to school.

-Eliana

I Am...

I am a blue, rushing ribbon
floating down a stream
bobbing up and down,
going around and around and around
in a whirlpool.

I am a tree dancing
in the night, hopping,
spinning,
all around.

I am the green grass
waving in the wind,
rushing, swaying all around.

I am joy, love and happiness.

I am kind things all around you.

I am brave and swift.

-Sage

I Am...

I am a ruby red rose waiting
to be picked for a love bouquet.

I am a giant cat
pouncing in the jungle
waiting for my prey to come.

I am a pop song on the radio.
I wait for the grown-up to turn
it to my channel.

I am the warm piece of creamy, cherry pie
waiting to get out of the oven.
I'm already just the right temperature,
maybe some ice-cream could go nice.

I am the bright sunshine
warming the world,
giving nature life,
that calms the universe.

-Maya

I Am...

I am a blue car racing down the road.
I am a lion chasing it's prey.
I am a chair waiting to be sit on.
I am a number a billion.
I sit on everyone.
I am at the top.
I am a steak waiting to be
eaten by a human being.
I am duck tape, waiting to be used.
I am a BOOM!
I am a piece of paper
waiting to be drawn on.
I am what I want to be.

-Marcus

I Am...

I am a dolphin jumping out of the
sparkling sea,
splish, splash.
I am a ripe peach in
the summer breeze.
I am a manatee in the ocean
with my mom.
I am a delicious piece of caramel
and a great combination of
chocolate and vanilla ice cream,
I am a little kitty petted by my owner.
I am a lot of things.

-Dana

I am a sea serpent
drifting through the water.
I am red like hot lava
flowing quickly down the river.
I am the sound of a stampede of bulls.
I am speedy like a cheetah.
That's my movement.
I am the number 100.

-Julian

I Am...

I am an owl perched
on the branch of happiness.
I am a raindrop, spiraling down
with no hesitation.
I am a majestic force,
giving the world a hope to cling to.
I am a coyote, howling at the
moon with a new tune.
I am a bright star,
shining down with a different light.
I am a a leaf, the wind
eats my rottenness away and
pushes me out again
with the purest heart you
could imagine.
I am the color of a wave,
crashing on the sandy shore.
I am a leap, leaping
into a new world.
I am a purple sock,
sliding on to a land of toes.
I am a song, singing
to the sky.

-Estrella

I Am...

I am a Red Baron racing across the sky,
cackling as the Germans gaze upwards in fear.
I am a rocket racing across the playground,
leaping for love as I see a mud pile.
I am a pale, white apple that
stands out against the silver on a Mac Book Pro.
I am a slithering snake ready to catch
my defenseless, gray prey and kill it.
I am a car racing other cars on a big hoola hoop
called the Grand Prix in San Francisco, California.
I am a meadowlark in an apple tree, greeting
people to the morning light.
I am a leaf floating peacefully down to the ground
on Halloween watching devils, dragons, vampires,
monsters,pirates, tigers and lions pass gleefully by.
I am an eraser getting forced to rub
roughly against a piece of paper,
erasing pencil marks.

-Calvin

I Am...

I am a bunny hopping in my owners room
when she sleeps.
I am a swing who moves frontwards and backwards.
I am the sun who shines down on the city, Missoula.
I am what I am.

I am a pencil that waits for someone to use me.
I am a hot coat that waits in a locker to go outside.
I am a paper that waits to be used to draw and write.
I am what I am.

-Marie

Mi Gato

Here Lynn's class wrote poems in Spanish about cats they drew in art.

Mi gato es gordo
Mi gato es diamante
Mi gato es grande
Mi gato tiene triángulos
Y más triángulos
Y más triángulos
Por: Nina

Mi gatito es muy malo
Mi gatito es un diablo
Mi gatito es negro
Mi gatito es una bestia
Mi gatito es un monstruo
Mi gatito es terrible
Mi gatito es feo
Mi gatito….
Por: Calvin

Kermee
Kermee mi gato es negro
Tiene seis años conmigo
Este año era un regalo de navidad
Para una niña de cinco años.
Me hace falta mucho
No voy a olvidar de ella.
Yo amo a este gato
Por: Bruce

Oliver
Mi gato Oliver es del color naranja con marrón en la cabeza
Salta sobre ratones traviesos en el jardín
Mi gato Oliver tiene una cola larga
Eso es mi gato Oliver
Por: Emiliano

Mi gato es gordo como un baloncesto
es blanco con manchas negras
Por: Ben

Quien es ese gato?
Blanco con rosado
¿Por qué está aquí?
¿Qué quiere?
Tiene orejas chiquitas y ojos grandes.
¿Quién es ese gato?
¿Por qué está aquí?
¿Qué quiere?
Gatito, Gatito, ¿por qué has venido?
¿Por qué estás aquí?
Te ves como tienes hambre
Pero todavía te ves un poco gordito.
Gatito, Gatito ¿Quién eres?
¿Por qué estás aquí?
Ahora sé quién eres.
Te llamas “Peace.”
Por: Eliana

Mi Gato
Mi gato es como un arco iris
Tiene los colores verde, azul, morado, café, negro, rojo, anaranjada
La cola es tan larga como un edificio grande
Está volando como un pájaro en el aire
Tiene manos chiquitas pero muy malas
Este es mi gato
Por: Marcus

Mi gato es muy gordo y sucio
Ella está en la hierba persiguiendo un perro gigante
Ella es de color azul, naranja, morado y rojo
Por: Marie

Mi gato
Mi gatito es lindo y chiquito
Es un color de colores
Tiene ojos azules y negros
Tiene colores que son brillantes
Tiene colores no brillantes
Tiene una taza que dice gato
Él tiene una cama con mucho color
Por: Sage

Holly
Holly es un gato naranja y negro
Con una cola que hace swish swish
Un gato lindo, chistoso y bueno
Como las flores brillantes sus orejas se ven
Ese es un gato bueno
Holly
Por: Dana

Stripster
Stripster el gato
Le gusta jugar
También le gusta la comida
Stripster es naranja
Sus ojos son verdes
Es un gatito chiquito
Stripster es un buen gato
Por: Maya

Jolly
Jolly es un buen gato
Es el color del fuego
Jolly tiene trece años y tiene un bebe
Jolly es un muy buen gato
Por: Paige

Mi Gatito
Mi gatito es de los colores blanco, café y naranja
Con los ojos brillantes como los diamantes
Sube los arboles bellos de color verde
Y salta distancias largas
Mi gatito duerme conmigo, al lado de mí
En mi cama por la noche, solamente allí
Mi gatito no es tímido como otros
Se ve lo valiente sin pensar
Me mantengo feliz con él
Mi gatito
Wizzle

Por: Hannah

personification poems

Today the students learned about personification. They then chose qualities to personify, modeling their writing style after Ruth Gendler's, Book of Qualities.

Jealousy

Jealousy works in a toy shop.
He rides his bike, although he wants to ride in a limo.
He lives in the Amazon rainforest, on a mountain, in a cave, but wants to live in a mansion, but he can't make one.
He works at a toy shop right out of his rainforest home.
He was born in a shack, but out of his bedroom window he saw a grand mansion.
His best friends are Blame and Anger.
He would like to wear nice clean clothes, but all he has are old muddy clothes that look like rags.
He wears a hood and has never had his face seen.
His mother is Hatred and his father is Envy.

-Joseph

Anger

Anger lives in a house on a mountain, by the toy factory where she works as the manager.
She has a pet goat that can eat things that are about the same size as its mouth, like humans, crocodiles, or other things like that.
Anger practices archery in her spare time and can shoot a bulls-eye when she is blindfolded.
She eats steak and drinks soda.
She loves Blame and her friend is Jealousy.
She hates Kindness.
You do not want to meet her because she is a skilled hunter.

-Joseph

Honor

Honor is a Queen.
She lives in
England in a
towering palace behind
rolling meadows.
Her favorite color is red so she
wears a red velvet dress
with diamonds and jewels and
a long flowing cape and
always a crown.
her mother is Beauty and her
father is Power.
Her favorite food is wedding cake.
Her favorite activity is chess.
She always wins.

-Ella

Perfection

Perfection wears a blue silk dress
with pearl buttons, but always thinks
there is room for perfection.
Her golden locks fall lushly,
curling as they ripple down blue silk.
Perfection lives in a large white mansion
with pink lace curtains on every window,
but still thinks London is not
good enough for her.
One of her closest friends is Service,
although Perfection is always
perfecting her looks.
Beauty is another of Perfection's friends,
but she is treated much more fairly.
Her father is Honor - always favoring
his only child.
Her mother is Jealousy - always looking
down on her daughter disapprovingly.
Perfection's favorite activity is
perfecting one mistake after another.
She works at a large
dress designing shop, Chibara,
where people enjoy paying visits.
Perfection always knows
there is room for more.

-Estrella

Doubt

Doubt likes to copy.
I cannot describe what she looks like because
she always changes.
She changes outfits whenever
she is around another person,
with doubt that they will not like it.
Doubt is very trendy.
Doubt's only friend is Worry.
Doubt and Worry do not go to
dances or parties,
in fact they hardly ever leave the
apartment they share.
Their apartment's shutters are always shut.
Doubt never told anyone her secrets,
not even Worry.
She doubted anyone would keep them
a secret; she thought they would laugh.
Her mother's name was Secret
and her father was Scared.
She was an only child.
I cannot tell you what she likes
to do; she always changed.
She always had completely different
attitudes around every person.
Doubt was very doubtful.

-Eliana

Procrastination

Procrastination usually wears dirty clothes.
She always wants to do it on Monday
but ends up doing it on Friday at midnight.
She still goes to school and is always late.
Her homework is never on time
and in class she is always tired because
she stays up late doing things
she wanted to get done weeks ago.
Procrastination has many friends,
like Forgetfulness, but
never has time to play with them.
If you peeked in her window,
you may see her eating cold left-overs
while looking through papers or
unloading the dishwasher
or washing torn clothes.
She lives in a small, grey, shabby,
messy shack.
Procrastination never has time to do
any of her favorite activities,
such as reading and hanging out
with her friends because
she is always working.

-Eliana

Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness was lying on her bed,
trying to remember what she had forgotten.
Her name gives away her personality.
She is... well, forgetful.
She taught math class at Beluga High School.
Unfortunately, the kids in Forgetfulness's
class did not learn anything.
Her bed was the best place for her to
remember things.
When she was in her classroom,
she always forgot what she was teaching
and how to do it.
So she would go home at least
six times a day to remember her things.
Her closest friend was Procrastination,
but every time she invited her
over to play, she would forget,
which was rather good for Procrastination
because she never had time.
She was always invited to parties and plays
and intended to go, but unfortunately,
she would always forget.
She spent almost her whole life
on her bed and
she was always late for teaching.
Forgetfulness was very... well, forgetful.

-Eliana

Risk-taker

Risk-taker is ten years old
and loves adventures.
He goes to his friend,
Excitement's house every day.
He and Excitement
go sky-diving every day
after school off the peak of
Mount Jumbo.
Sometimes Joy comes along too.
He loves rock climbing.
He and Joy go on
long climbs together.

-Emiliano

Curiosity

Curiosity loves adventure.
He likes to study the
colorful animals in the rainforest.
His job is working at war.
He lives in a giant mansion
with paintings all over
the house because
Creativity is his mom and
Boredom is his dad.
He wears draggy clothes.
Weirdness is his friend.

-Garet

Greed

Greed is a pirate
roping a princess and
making her walk the plank.
You can hear
the princess screaming - Ahhh -
and then you hear
the pirate laughing - Ha ha ha.
The pirate is as
scary as a zombie,
if you see him
you would scream.

-Max

Balance

Balance is a big girl and she is a very famous
teacher of gymnastics.
She thinks of being on the balance beam
that is about a mile off of the ground.
She has a sister that is named Victory.
Her sister, Balance, is always teaching Victory
gymnastics and she doesn't have
any parents.
That is Balance!

-Nina

Stupidity

Stupidity is 1, 371 years old and a boy
who thinks he's a girl.
Stupidity works at Fuzzy Wigs and
is supposed to sell candy,
but instead all he does is eat it.
Stupidity loves to pick his nose and
stick the boogers in his ears.
The sticky boogers clog his brain
that's why he's so dumb.
Stupidity lives in a humongous pink
wedding dress.
Stupidity has one friend.
Her name is Ugliness.
Stupidity thinks she is beautiful
but she's actually ugly.
He likes to wear Dora underpants.
His favorite food is monkey guts.

-Max


Happiness

Happiness lives on a tiny island in a
good sized log cabin. He has a gigantic backyard
about half of the size of a football field.
He wears a green sweatshirt,
the color of moss like an old man's beard.
When Happiness moves,
he zooms like a race car.
One day Happiness got on to his dad's big
boat and went to Texas and got an XBoX 360 play station
and football stuff. Then they went
back to their little island.
Happiness is on summer break.

-Ben


Triumph

Triumph is a strong, tall man.
His specialty is doing Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
He lived in California, USA, until he realized that
he had amazing talents and he thought of the most
triumphant city in the world and
he came up with Berlin, Germany.
He always brags with his friends about
how good he is at sports
like Hockey, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Tennis,
Handball, Racketball, Football, Cricket,
Chess, Poker, Spoons, and Blackjack.
His mother is Incredible and
his father is Awesomeness.
They both have a very interesting history.
Triumph's best friend is Victory
because they have everything in common
but Triumph is way better than Victory
because he always gets the Triumph.
Triumph always wears a blood red robe
with medals all around his neck and
ribbons around his body.
Triumph's four friends are
Memory, Glory, Victory, and Sadness.
You would never want to meet him
because you would get sucked up into
his power to be one of his people
who tell him how great he is.

-Calvin

Fear

She likes to sit criss cross and be a Buddhist.
She lives in Paris.
She likes to wear blue and black clothing.
She has only one friend and she is Interest.
Her father is Glory.
Her sister is Memory and her brother is Power.
Her closest friend is Interest.
She fears Loneliness and Sadness.
She is very quiet and cooperative.

Her name is Fear.

-Ian

Evil

Evil is the most
unappreciated weirdo
in town and his
ability is completely
disliked which is creating
blasters to blast
robots. When he cruises
around town in his
starship many
people gasp in
horror, afraid he'll
blast them like
his robots. His name
is Zorg.

-Aidan

Love

Love is a girl
that in her spare time
goes to play soccer every night.
She goes to a school that has fun stuff
like games and loves to play the ones that have running.
She lives in the biggest mansion of all time
and her friends are Sadness and Joy.
She wears a silver dress every day
and her mom is Hate and
her dad is Worry.
She has two annoying brothers
and her best friend is Sadness and everybody laughs at them.
She is very shy and does not like to talk out loud.
She has long brown hair and
her eyes are bright blue as the sky
and she is very skinny.

-Bruce

Creativity

Creativity wears a gold floating dress
that wraps around her ankles
that flows when she walks
in the forest with her animal friends.
She lives in a very old house,
well, it's actually a painting,
and the painting is exciting and beautiful
and it's a painting of a giant art studio with four floors.
I really like her house.
I think it's very unique in so many ways.

-Avery

Anger

Anger wears a black sparkly dress and she has blond hair.
Anger is a girl.
She likes to pick on her brother and sister and make herself pretty.
Anger was thinking of inviting her friends, but her mom and dad said no.

-Wren

Creativity

Creativity is a boy.
His job is an artist.
His favorite games are iPod, Monopoly, blocks, math.
He lives in Hollywood with his friends, Dark, Excellent, and Evil.
He wears gangster clothes.
His mom is Commitment.
His dad's name is Army.
His closest friend is Excellent.

-Oliver

Blame

Blame works at a toy shop with his best friends, Anger and Jealousy.
He lives in a hollow tree in the Amazon rainforest.
He hates Kindness and is in love with Anger.
When he was very young, he broke a ball and blamed it on his former friend, Envy.
He likes to climb trees in his spare time, but always breaks his bones.
He eats rat tails and mangoes, bananas and berries.
He makes things that kids love, such as bouncing balls,
and gets paid $100 year (which is not that much for a grown-up).

-Joseph

Victory

Victory is a man who loves challenging
other people, but no one ever can beat him.
His favorite thing to do is play sports.
His absolute favorite is skiing because he
loves the feeling of glory when he
races down the shiny, white hill.
He lives on a bridge that goes over a waterfall.
His best friend is Awesomeness.
All his clothing is gold.
His mom is Humor, his dad is Weirdness,
his sister is Amazing. Together they
win all the games they play with the neighbors.
Victory loves to visit big cities like New York
because he likes to see all the different
kinds of people there. His favorite thing to do
is take challenges.

-Marcus

Elegance

Elegance is a teacher
in an elegant school.
Her favorite thing to teach the children
is how speak correctly.
Elegance likes to dance in the living room
in a dress of blue and white flowers.
She also likes to sing in public.
Elegance lives in a blue, 100 story house
with her black cat Kay.
Elegance has two friends, Love and Wonder.
Elegance loves to wear blue gowns that
glitter and sparkle that go down to her feet.
Elegance's parents are Anxiety and Frustration
but they died when she was three.
When Elegance feels sad she goes
and picks flowers from a meadow by her house.
She takes them home where she puts them
in a blue vase.
The flowers make her think of her parents
and then she feels a little bit better.

-Sage

Happiness

Happiness's job at school is to make sure
everyone is in their line when the bell rings.
Happiness picks flowers for her parents every evening.
The types of flowers she picks are daisies, sunflowers and tulips.
Happiness lives in a cottage at the edge of the woods by
the pond filled with colorful rocks and fish.
She has one friend named Shyness.
Shyness and Happiness love to pick flowers
for each of their parents.
Happiness wears her favorite gold dress
with flowers on it.
Her mother is Thoughtful and her
father is Angry. Her sister is Playful and
her brother is Hateful.
Hateful hates Happiness.
But Happiness just ignores him.

-Marie

Risk-Taker

Risk-Taker blasts down the
double black diamond. She hurries to the chairlift
to get to the top mountain so she can
fly down the icy ski run.
After a long day of skiing,
Risk-Taker drives to her fancy white apartment.
She puts on her silky dress.
She asks her friends, Confidence, Thinker and Creativity
to come by her place so they can
go sledding down the hill by her house.
Risk-Taker loves to ski, even though
she is 90 years old.
You might still see her coming down the
old backside at Discovery.

-Paige



Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm loves playing football.
When he's not playing football,
he paints pictures of football players
and speaks in French.
He lives underground.
He wears a blue leotard because
he also likes to do gymnastics.

-Beckett

Fear

Fear is a man that can do
anything in the military.
He always carries a gun with him.
Fear has a crabby old mom and dad.
His brother and sister died in World War I.
No one knows where he lives.

-Nathan

Surprise

Surprise is great!
He works as a delivery room
doctor at a hospital.
When he's not at the hospital,
he shoots hoops, swims and plays football.
He wears sweat pants and a tee shirt
because it's easy to go from activity to activity.
One bad thing is he always has to see you
and that's hard because he
lives on Mt. Everest.
Only his family and I
have been up there to his house.
He was in the army like my friend,
Excitement. In the army, we all
did the same job. We all have
a badge of honor.

-Finn


Weirdness

Weirdness is...well...weird.
He walks around New York City, usually
vandalizing some billboard with his closest friend, Fear.
Or maybe he paints an odd mural on an old wall downtown,
with his other friend, Creativity.
He lives in a misshapen apartment that has no electricity but
Weirdness still keeps a microwave and stove.
For food he buys some unhealthy enchiladas from a nearby McDonald's.
Once he has his food, he casually drips some moldy syrup in his mouth
straight from the bottle, for sweetness.
Weirdness always wears his lucky Yankees baseball cap
turned to the side. He also wears a shirt that clearly states,
"I Love Hannah Montana."
With those clothes he wears some boring old sweat pants.
He is not very close to his parents who are
Respect and Confidence.
His father owns the Hershey's Company, but does not share his money.
Respect, Weirdness's mother, is very respectful to Confidence,
which means she's not much nicer to her son.

-Will

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is very strong.
His favorite color is red
and he really, really likes sports.
Enthusiasm's favorite CD is
Angus Young's, AC/DC.
Enthusiasm has big, buggy eyes
and is very, very strong.
He always gives 100% effort and loves track.
His favorite game to play with his buddies is leapfrog.

-Jack

Empathy

Empathy love to work at her job as a doctor.
In her spare time, she plays piano or
listens to her friend's problems.
She lives in a big, cozy house in Mexico.
Her closest friends are Love, Excitement and Elegance.
Empathy loves to wear long, silky pink dresses.
Her mother is Glory,
her father is Risk-Taker and her
sister is Joy.
She loves to eat potatoes, play games and the color pink.
One day she longs to visit Antarctica.
Empathy dreams that one day she'll live in Florida.

-Dana

Shyness

Shyness likes to take walks in the outdoors and
sing to the animals.
She likes to take walks because she is
a very happy person.
She wears a white dress and white shoes with
black eyeshadow and red lipstick.
Shyness has blond hair and painted fingernails.
Shyness works as a librarian.
Shyness has lots of secrets.

-Ellie

Disgust

Disgust lives in the darkest part of the sewer.
He only has one friend, Evil.
Evil only appears in times of horror.
Although Evil doesn't stay long, Disgust gets
very satisfied. Disgust doesn't get offered
many jobs so he makes his own, Sewer Monitor.
Disgust makes sure everyone is doing things
without thought.

-Liza

Curiosity

Curiosity is always noticeable in a crowd because
she always looks different.
She is different in a way that
you will never meet anyone else like her.
She loves purple, but never wears it.
In fact, you can usually see her in a sun skirt
but a winter shirt. Her house is half blue and
half yellow and her best friend is Creativity.
When they draw together, they are quite unusual.
Her hair is brownish-red.
She never talks but she asks
amazing questions.
Curiosity is mysterious.

-Whitney

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm zings into the room with a
hop and a sizzle.
Every day, she goes to her job as a
gymnastics teacher. She hears enthusiasm,
from her team.
After work, she goes to a BBQ party where she
devours ribs, cor bread, coleslaw and beans.
She drinks beer, root beer and wine
(she has a hard time making decisions).
Enthusiasm lives in Hollywood.
Sometimes in the park when she's
walking in her high heels, shorts and tank-top
with the navy's pattern,
she sees movie stars.
She busts in and shouts, "Hello!"

-Miko

Adorable

Adorable is a girl.
She is very bright.
Her job as a pet store owner can be hard,
but Adorable doesn't let it get the best of her.
In her spare time, she draws beautiful
mountains or walks her three gorgeous dogs,
Jellybean, Pumpkin and Cocoa.
Adorable lives in an adorable little house in Sapas.
She wears blue shorts and a white tee shirt.
Her mother is Mrs. Weird, her father is
Mr. Commitment and her sister is
Enthusiasm. Adorable has 1000 cousins who
are very adorable,
just like her.

-Gillian

Wisdom

Sometimes you can see Wisdom
riding her horses in the golden, glittering mountains,
or maybe tap-dancing all afternoon on the old,
scratched up wood mansion floor, or maybe,
competing in gymnastics doing routines
and front flips or, maybe,
books in her bed,
imagining far away lands like
Candyland on day's that are cold or
doing baby on the same scratched up floor.
If Wisdom is not doing any of those things,
she's out saving animals.
Well, that is her job.
Her mom is Creativity and her dad is Ignorance.
Her sister is Beauty.
Her closest friend is Curiosity.
Finally, her other friend is Change.

-Avery

Creativity

Creativity likes tie dye wall drawing.
After drawing plays outside in the cool, cold breeze
and after praying, Creativity will go
to her job as an artist. Then she finally
travels to Antarctica.
She puts on her wonderful, crazy beads and sings
her most lovely, favorite song,
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
After she sings, she goes home to
her colorful mansion and puts on
her wonderful, shiny, tie-dye dress for
a meal of yummy, delicious sushi.

-Sophie

Pain

Pain is always moaning in fear.
He tumbles down the rocky hills,
holding a gun from his days in the military
in his dark, bloody hands.
Then he stumbles into his red hut where his
mother, Terror, is waiting for him
(she was leaving to go to a horror movie).
He eats all his wasabi then
marches back up to war.
His feet ache and his arms and legs bulge.
His head swells up and he can see,
he is making his way to more pain.

-Hayden

Caring

Caring is protective.
She lives in a big house with a dog, cat and rat.
Her best friend is Creativity.
Caring wears a blue dress with black sparkles.
She doesn't walk but skips to her favorite place,
the park, where she plays with kids.
Her favorite book is called, "Emalie."
She travels to Hawaii and plays with the dolphins.

-Wren

Craziness

Craziness's occupation is to cause total chaos.
He'll jump off honey combs and slap pies in
Calmness's face. He will eat six ice-cream cones
for every meal. He smashes glass dishes in
everyone's faces. He'll jump till he brakes
all the white house windows.
He lives in an upside down house
in the middle of the park, in the city.
His friends are Joy, Interest and Creativity.
He wears colorful shirts with polka dots and stripes
that are so bright, you need to squint
just to see him in them. Anyway,
he's too fast to see.
His sister is Calmness and Craziness
drives her WILD! His mom is Glory and his dad is Worry
and they all act with the same attitude around Craziness,
worried, worried, SCARED!
Craziness will always be the same.
I'm sure of that.

-Hannah



Jealousy

Jealousy works in a toy shop.
He rides his bike to work,
although he wants to ride in a limo.
He lives in the Amazon rainforest on
a mountain in a cave, but wants
to live in a mansion but can't make one.
He works at a toy shop, right out of
his rainforest home. He was born in a shack
but out of his bedroom window,
he saw a grand mansion.
His best friends are Blame and Anger.
He would like to wear nice, clean clothes
but only has old, muddy clothes that
look like rags.
He wears a hood and does not like to be seen.
His mother is Hatred and his father is Envy.

-Joseph

Imagination

When Imagination walks into a room,
you can always hear her coming because she sings a little song.
People stop what they are doing and look at her.
First they notice her black, shiny rain boots.
Then they notice her short, goldish brown hair and the
purple barrette on the side of her head.
Everyone wants to be her friend.
After school, Imagination plays violin in the meadow by herself.
She lives in the mostly green forest filled with her animal friends.
The deer, rabbits and little mice love to
dance to Imagination's playful music.

-Lily Baumes

Creativity

Creativity bikes to work as an art teacher.
She loves the wind when it rushes through her.
It reminds her of her favorite art piece, "The Woman."
After she bikes home to her little house in Paris,
she feels cold in her worn out jeans and old apron.
She calls her friends Interest, Uniqueness and Craziness
to see if they want to come over and paint.
But then her mother, Glory, and father, Triumph
say no because the last time Craziness was over,
she broke all the windows.

-Maya

Envy

Envy is an old man.
He has a long, black beard.
He works at a small jail in London and
lives in a small, shabby apartment -
the lights are always off.
Envy usually sleeps during the day unless
he is at the bar.
He hates the light,
that si why he sleeps in the day and
wanders at night. Every Monday at midnight,
Envy walks slowly to the bowling alley.
He never plays against anyone, he goes alone.
He hardly hits a pin, partly because he does not
really try.
He does not have any friends, he does not want any.
His mother was Blame,
his father was Criticism.
His sister was Anger and his parents
favored her.
Envy always wears a heavy black overcoat,
no one knows what he wears under that because
he has never taken it off.
His favorite food is octopus tentacles.
In fact, he will not eat anything else.
Envy is always envious.
He has no friends.

-Eliana

Imagination

Imagination is a small thing.
She has short blond hair which she always wears in pigtails.
She is Envy's stepsister but he never mentions her.
He hates her.
Imagination does not care.
She has enough imagination to keep her busy.
She always wears sundresses, all different kinds.
She wears tank tops in the winter but
she is never cold.
Like Envy, she loves to go bowling
but with her friends. They run in, order lemonades
and BOWL! She does not have any best friends,
she likes everyone. Her father is Positivity,
her mother is Happiness.
She has so many siblings she cannot remember their names.
Besides, she'd rather call them by the names
she creates like Loud Mouth and Big Mess.
She lives in big mansion in Africa.
She likes snow cones and all different kinds of juices.
Imagination has a big imagination!

-Eliana

Empathy

As Empathy slowly walks to a new school,
she thinks about how scared other people are
and her too.
She is a young and shy girl.
In school she learns to write poems and stories.
After school, she runs back to her grass hut and
paints abstract paintings for the sad, poor people
to sell. She'll give them the money she makes.
Empathy calls to her friend, Activity, to run on the field
while she grabs her light brown cape and
pulls it over her yellow pants and shirt.
They roll int he grass for over an hour
and decide to have a picnic with potatoes,
bananas, bread and carrots.
Empathy thinks Activity likes her home.
And so does she.

-Ellie Jenni

Excellence

Excellence wears a red tie,
black shirt and blue jacket.
Excellence is the president
of the country, Excitement.
Excellence is married to
Kindness and his children are
Perfect and Beautiful.
The family likes to go on trips
together to Hawaii. In Hawaii they
go to the beach where they
build sandcastles and surf.
His best friend is Creativity.

-Collin