GIFTS

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Tropical Fruit Salad

Here

There

Who’s there?

That cool breeze

Welcome to the rain

Mangoes, paw-paws, watermelons

The rainy season brings them all to our fruit salad

I wrote my first Fib poem with my Teach Write writing party. Here’s part of the instruction we used to create our poems. “Fib poems are based on the mathematical Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8… The poem is written in syllables based on this sequence.”

We were to write our poems about spring, since there are only two seasons where I am , we decided I write about change, and as the rainy season starts in April, I wrote about that.

MANGOES. Photo credit: Flickr (Sunnyswede)


8 responses to “Tropical Fruit Salad”

  1. This is excellent, you used the structure but still made a coherent thread of ideas. R’s fave in Ghana was Paw-Paw! Also really great tie to math in poetry. 🙂

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  2. I love the Fib format and the mathematical implications. It’s a fun form to share w/ students, too. Lovely photo.

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  3. What an interesting format. You did a great job with the topic.

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  4. What a fun format!
    I love a good mango. Sweet sunshine for the mouth.

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  5. I really like this format and may have to try it. Thank you!

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I am am Elementary school teacher at an International IB School in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. I write with groups of writers, such as Teach Write.

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