XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 5/23/2011
Spotlight on SunFlower Private School,
Gulfport
Bird and Tree, marker
Una Barnitz, third grade
Maine
By the ocean there is a stream.
By the stream there is a bush filled with beautiful pink flowers.
Some fall off into the cold, rocky stream.
I watch them as they float by me into the ocean.
Karina Gonthier, fourth grade
Underground
Underground is a place for limestone.
Weasels are hiding underground.
Sassafras's roots are underground.
Muskrats are burrowing underground.
Ground squirrels are playing tag in their tunnels underground.
Ben Pridemore, third grade
Fog
Fog is white magic
creeping all around.
White magic that makes
the world disappear.
Rachel Cappock, third grade
I'm Talking Sad
I'm talking sad.
I'm talking tearful.
I'm talking melancholy,
miserable, sorrowful.
I'm talking glum, downcast,
morose, unhappy.
I'm talking dejected, gloomy, blue,
sullen, grievous, forlorn.
I'm talking sad.
Rory Goldych, third grade
Famous
The mint is famous to the mouth.
The mosquito is famous to the blood.
The Journal is famous to the words.
The brain is famous to the imagination.
The movie is famous to the eyes.
The bee is famous to the pollen.
The turtle is famous to the shell.
The car is famous to the road.
I am famous to my family.
Kayda Sandefur, fourth grade
Cat, marker
Karina Gonthier, fourth grade