Amazing Authors!

Lake Contrary Elementary was privileged to have a published author come visit us on Tuesday, March 22nd.  Judy Young spent the day with our students, giving presentations to each class, and then sponsoring a poetry contest that evening.  Students were given the words "near, invisible, shadow, and snow" and told to write a poem, and then Ms. Young would select her favorite poems from each grade level to announce at our Author Night on Tuesday evening.  Our class had recently learned all about using free-verse to express our feelings in a poem.  The Poet Laureate (1st Place) and 2nd Place Poets in third grade were both from our class!  We are so proud of all the authors in third grade.  Here are the award-winning poems!

The shadow near the invisible snowman.

by Trey (our Poet Laureate- 1st Place Winner)

Big

Made out of invisible snow

Who is near a shadow, who stays still until

It is hot

Drip Drip

 

I see a factory

by Gabriel (2nd Place Winner)

I see a factory near by

and I see smoke coming near by in the air

and that smoke looks like snow floating in              the sky up up and away

       and

         when

            I

            walk

              in

                the

            Factory

              I see

              my characters

                          shadow

                     and when I turn around again

                       It was gone

invisible.