Clang Clang

Today in science, the kids wrote onomatopoeia poems.  We discussed words that described sounds and looked at a poem that included sounds we hear all around us.  The kids really wrote some great, creative poems either about sounds they hear around their house such as the ringing of the phone, the crying of their baby sisters, or the crashing sound of their brothers.  Some chose instead to write poems about peaceful settings such as waterfalls or birds singing.

I was very impressed with their poems and their precise descriptions of sounds.  However, as I walked around and read "ring, ring," "crack, crack," "tweet, tweet," "swoosh, swoosh," all I could think about was the sounds a trolley makes...