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 My Food Monster hair like sticky spaghetti eyes like saucy meatballs a nose like a red hot dog ears that almost look like bananas a mouth shaped like corn on the cob a neck like a big square of Swiss cheese a body shaped like watermelon arms like fresh picked carrots legs like nice crispy French bread feet like big pancakes By Rich 10/08

media type="file" key="fall poetry rg.mov" Fall Poetry Reading

Thanksgiving Turkey with gravy to eat Help in the kitchen Awesome corn with butter and salt Nice friends surround me Kids cooking with mom Smell of Thanksgiving food Giving sweet treats to the family love sweet potatoes Very fun day I love the yummy feast No school is fun Great relatives By Rich

I Like the Colors of Christmas I like the colors of Christmas Green is the color of some ornaments on my tree Silver bells ringing in the street Red is for Rudolph’s nose White is for snow falling softly down to the ground Purple is the color of blinking lights I like the colors of Christmas

By Rich 12/08 media type="file" key="richwinter.mov" Who What Where When Why Poem

The purple hyena raced with his friends through the rain forest while the sun set because he wanted to see who was fastest.

By Rich

A Good Friend plays with you tells you funny jokes comes over to your house helps you when you’re hurt plays baseball with you listens to you and never, never, never hurts you

By Rich  Hello Spring Poem Good-bye, snowman Good-bye, icicles Good-bye, winter Spring’s ahead!

Good-bye sleds Good-bye Mighty Hill Good-bye, winter. Spring, hello!

Hello, bikes Hello, scooters Good-bye winter. Spring’s in sight!

Hello, swimming Hello, fishing Good-bye winter. Spring’s in sight!

By Rich

The Green Sea Turtle

A very green turtle ate purple juicy jellyfish on the surface of the ocean at 4:00 PM because he didn’t want to get eaten by a tiger shark.

By Rich



Mother by the Numbers

One dog to feed Two kids to take care of Three meals a day Four hours of house cleaning Five sports to take us to Six minutes to read to me Seven batches of cookies Eight hours of alone Nine trips to New York Ten thousand hugs and kisses Then she does it all over again!

By Rich

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Richie: We love your poems! Besides Math and Reading, Poetry is one of the things I enjoy teaching more than anything! Reading your poem about Thanksgiving made me hungry, but mostly it made me wish I was in Maine visiting my family! Here is a poem for you:

SNOWBALL I made myself a snowball As perfect as could be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for its head. Then last night it ran away, But first - it wet the bed.  Shel Silverstein

Keep up the great work Richie! Thanks for sharing with us! We miss you and Rachael...stay warm, and keep the snowballs out of your bed! Love, Uncle Russ and Aunt Ginger 

Richie you did a great job on your food monster poem. Can't wait to see more of your work. Love Mom. Happy birthday Richie have a great time at the country buffet.love aunt mimi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice Job Rich. Your my best boy, Wait, your my only boy. Daddy 12/02/08 Richie- Boy are you learning a lot in Maine!! Happy Thanksgiving. We miss you alot and can't wait to visit you. Keep up the great work Love Matthew Cox and Family

Richie: Your poems are excellent. I love seeing what you are doing and learning in school. Of course I miss you a lot and can't wait to see you. I love you to the moon and back. Love, Aunt Mimi

Richie: I love the colors of Christmas too. Everything seems to sparkle, especially when it snows. My favorite color is blue, but I love red, green and gold too. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and I can't wait to see you Saturday. Hugs and kisses. Aunt Mimi

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=Things I know about the weather = = = Weather is made of wind direction, wind force, precipitation, temperature, sunshine, visibility, and clouds.

The three different types of clouds I learned about were cirrus, stratus, cumulus 