enormous branches
hazelnut trees near water
--- growing delicious
--- Yaakov Meir B.
slippery rainy
cloudy wet windows dark out ---
damp and muddy socks
--- Yeruchom
fluffy white tissues
wrinkly delicate folds
---crumpled up garbage
--- Shmulie Grossman
ugly poison oak
water fountain thorn bushes
branches squirrels grass
--- Levi Lebovitz
limosines hummers
police fire ambulance,
fast airplanes flying
--- Yonie Gould
flaming volcanos,
burning mountain hot lava
spilling brown ashes
--- Shlomo Zalman Schwartz

School

baseball and soccer
helper jobs and trading books
--- third grade poetry
Levi Lebovitz
cold recess tickets
orange blue purple yellow,
red hot old paper
Judah Fenton
estimating facts
multiplication buzz-pop
less than greater than
Moshe F.
fun recess tickets
orange yellow and blue scraps,
purple are the best.
Pinchas Horowitz
answering problems
big multiplication facts
hard mathematics
Yitzchak Haas
They are very good
Recess tickets you should keep
Don't give them to him
---
teacher tall bearded
musician good carpenter
dedicated nice
Moshe Dovek
notebooks and binders
multiplication tables
construction paper
Yeruchom Levine
Light the menorah
eat latkes and play dreidel
---Happy Chanukah
Ezriel G.
Math Book, easy test
number test, fun jump ahead
math book, no erase.
Moshe Dovek
Math Book paper place
problem pages numbers one
chapter minus tens.
Adiel Youshei
soccer recess park
interjections adverbs nouns
--- first aid kit captain
Shmulie G.
School is very fun
I love to learn and to play
I love the homework
Ezriel Wilhelm
two vowels go walking
the first one does the talking,
and it says its name
Yitzi Bachrach
Haiku funny old
Write a lot of haiku now
Big little always
Binny Kogos
class is very nice
Mr. Wagner teaches fun things
nothing is better
Ezriel Wilhelm
Time For Kids is good
Some people like Time For Kids
I like to read it.
Menachem Lensky
(2nd grade)
We have five Centers.
We have four people in groups.
We have fun in groups.
Dov Ber Brecher
posters on the wall
listening to tapes on middos
---people telling jokes
Yonie Gould
conjunctions phonics
addition and substraction
multiplication
Ezriel G.
We learn math in school
spelling and english as well.
Learning can be fun.
Shlomo Zalman S.
soccer recess park
interjections adverbs nouns
--- first aid kit captain
Shmulie G.

Tu B'Shvat

In the month of Shvat
it grows green leaves
  and red leaves.
It grows tasty fruit.
--- Yossi Cohen
(2nd grade)
The big green fruit tree.
It's a good yummy fruit day.
eat good fruit today.
--- Yossi Cohen
(2nd grade)
It is night outside
I am very cold tonight
It is very bright
--- Yitzi Bachrach
Rivers flowing high ---
Rivers make me feel greater
flowing very high
--- Yeshaya Coriat
Summer construction
big noisy digging machines,
busy men at work
Gershon Gluckin
the recharging phone
ringing loudly all day long
---but never for me
Shimon Ochs
In the wedding hall,
a musician powers on
---plays the Yamaha
Elchonon Mandel

Animals

Peachy red ruffles
wet washing up on the shore
---beautiful seashells
Moshe F.
Fluffy fur trotting ---
gray wolves howling hungry
by the frozen pond
Yitzchak Haas
a lion on a rock
inside a white metal gate
roaring loud and long
Yonatan Cohen
Summer day, two tigers,
white and black, orange and black
---locked metal gates
Moishe Sacks

Weather

Snow colder water.
fun to play in freezing snow---
it falls from heaven
Ezriel Wilhelm
It's snowing outside
everything will be frozen
until the spring comes
Ely Mendelev

Geography

White beach, gentle waves
warm sun, seashells, sandcastles
---Atlantic Ocean
Ezra Zimble
Cold Antarctica
dangerous frozen desert
bottom of the world
Mr. Wagner
It is cold out there,
It is icy everywhere.
Are the birds OK?
Yossi Cohen (2nd grade)
Panama is thin
the great canal was built there;
forty boats go through
Noach Fireman

History

Watery Venice
enemy of Genoa
--- Marco Polo's home
Moishe Sacks
Rich Marco Polo
Slept in Kublai Kahn's palace,
Twenty years went by
Yonatan Cohen
Along the Silk Road
gunpowder and persian rugs
jade coal and spices
Shimon Ochs
silkworms are eating
leaves on the feeding table
---spinning white cocoons
Gershon Gluckin
worms are fantastic
they come out like butterflies ---
silkworms are changing
---
in the dark ages
young and old vikings fought hard,
they spill lots of blood
Judah Fenton
Trees on a shoreline
Land of grain, grapes and timber ---
and stories back home
Ezra Zimble
in the dark ages
murdering Vikings no peace
With war boats and hats
Judah Fenton
We learn history
of Balboa and the king,
I like it a lot.
Tzvi Beer
(2nd grade)

Blood

red watery hot.
not a drink for you to drink.
I do not like it.
Moshe Dovek

Book Reports

the name of the book,
the title, the illustrator ---
letters, pages, book
Adiel Youshei

Cursive Writing

very hard at first,
a lot of lines and some curves ---
it is very fun
Ezriel Wilhelm

Sports

snowy basketball
tired soccer at the park
---super fun recess
Yaakov B.
Yankee touches base
mets lose after next inning
yankee is happy
Chaim Miller
Series in New York
Bernie, Jeder, Andy, Mike
(players in last line)
Moshe Leib Rabinowitz
I skate on metal.
The ice is like cold marble.
I hit the hard puck.
Shalom Ber Cohen
I like the Yankees
I like the batter Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth hits home runs
Avrohom Chaim Gould
(2nd grade)