Here's a Poem About Me

I think I'm going to have my students create a "Where I'm From" poem when we get back to school.  It's a creative and fun way to get to know each other a little better at the beginning of school.  Here is an example of mine.  I hope you like it.

Where I’m From

By:  Kristin Cox

I am from bike riding,

From bike riding with my friends.

I am from a spotless house

 (my mother kept an extremely clean house).

I am from a house

 that smelled like a combination of food cooking, cigarette smoke,

And men’s cologne (my mama loved to cook and my daddy

smoked cigarettes and wore lots of cologne).

I am from sharing holidays with Big Mama,

From, “shut up before you get bopped in the mouth!”

“You can’t change the spots on a leopard!”

“Well, I’ll be John Brown!”

I am from going to Sunday school every Sunday,

From youth choir rehearsal, vacation Bible school,

And finally, the church picnic.

I am from chicken and dressing, collard greens,

Macaroni, string beans, and potato salad (Sunday dinner).

I am from the death of my father

on my birthday.

From making it through middle and high school

In a single parent household.

From graduating at the top of my class,

From earning a masters and an Ed.s. degree in education,

From finding my dream husband,

From looking into the eyes of my sweet baby boys,

From ripping and running to t-ball games, karate, and swimming,

From loving my family unconditionally,

From just plain old being me.

I love my life!