The colors and designs of these masks are as diverse as our school’s population. The metal masks are based on the principles of design balance and specifically symmetry. Students could create any kind of design of mask as long as it was symmetrical. They used permanent markers on metal. Look at the playful shapes and patterns in the art of our intermediate students.

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As our sixth graders studied figurative language they thought it would be fun to personify a few common objects and concepts. Their writing is thought provoking, and at times sparkling with humor. Please enjoy these personification poems and share them with your friends!

I am the sun.
I live in the sky.
My favorite colors are black, blue, and yellow.
I like to wear a yellow shirt and yellow pants.
My job is to make flowers happy.
My family is the stars and my friend is the moon.
I go to

I am the sun.
I live in the sky way up high.
My favorite colors are red, orange, and yellow.
I like to wear bright clothes everyday.
My job is to heat the earth and make brightness.
My family is the sky and my friends are the clouds.
I go on vacation all around the world to make brightness.
My favorite holiday is summer because that’s when I’m used the most.
I move by floating up in the sky.
Lyric

I am paper.
I live in a box.
My favorite colors are red, white, and blue.
I wear lead and I like to wear colors.
My job is to help kids do their math.
My family is scratch paper and my friends are pens and pencils.
My vacation is to fly like a plane.
My favorite holiday is the 4^th of July.
I move by flying like a plane.
JuveI am a hockey puck.
I live on the ice.
My favorite colors are red, white, and blue and did I mention black?
I like to wear black leather coat.
My job is to get slapped around by these things called sticks.
My family and friends are ice and Mr. Goal.
For vacation, I seem to never get a break. What’s up with that?
My favorite holiday is Christmas dude.
I move by gliding across ice while getting beat up by the stick gang.

I am a mouse.
I like to live in a Barbie house with my Barbie wife.
My favorite colors are white and brown.
I like to wear nothing because I don’t like clothes.
My job is to steal cheese from other people.
My family is a cat and my friend is a rat.
I like to go visit my uncle Geronimo Stilton.
My favorite holiday is give me cheese day.
I move through my cool toy car.
ToubeeI am a clock.
I live everywhere.
My favorite colors are all colors because I come in all colors.
I like to wear spinning hands.
My job is to tell people what time it is.
My family and friends are numbers and dashes.
On vacation I go to 12:00 midnight.
My favorite holiday is the holiday where most people look at the time.
I move to different numbers and time with my hands.
SamanthaI am a taco.
I live in a shell shaped house.
My favorite color is golden yellow and bumpy brown.
I like to wear brown pants, green shoes, and yellow shirts.
I am the manager of Taco

I am wood.
I live in a desk.
My favorite color is yellow.
I like to wear erasing clothes.
My job is to go where my master tells me to go.
My family and friends are thick and thin.
I’m on vacation when I go back in my desk.
My favorite holiday is sharpener day.
I move when my master makes me.
Tim

I am an apple.
I live in a fruit bowl.
My favorite colors are red and white.
I wear a red jacket and a white T-shirt.
My job is to be eaten.
My family is other apples and my friends are bananas and green apples.
I like to go in lunch boxes.
My favorite holiday is every day.
How I move is I roll.
Sierra
I am love.
I live in people’s hearts.
My favorite colors are red and pink.
I like to wear a golden arrow.
My job is to make people love each other.
My family is happiness and my friends are joyful.
I go on vacation in people’s hearts to make them fall in love.
My favorite holiday is Valentines Day.
I move slowly in to your heart.
Oxana

I am gold.
I live in everyone’s greed and in fancy jewelry stores and casinos.
My favorite colors are gold, silver, and yellow.
I love to wear my silver tuxedo.
My job is to shine with all of my might and make people want me. (I also work for Greed Inc.)
My family is silver, copper, bronze, metallic blue, and my friends are electric blue and yellow.
I go to casinos and ancient cities for my vacations.
My favorite holidays are Christmas, New Years, and the 4^th of July.(I love seeing shiny and bright lights)
I am exchanged for goods or I am crafted into jewelry.
Glen

I am a crumply paper.
I live in a crumply old desk.
My favorite color is white. Duh!
I wear a shirt with writing and no pants.
My job is to make the teacher mad.
My family and friends are other crumpled up papers and stinky markers.
I go on vacation at the teacher’s desk.
My favorite holiday is the WASL.
I move by turning into an airplane.
WilliamI am chocolate.
I live in a wrapper.
My favorite colors are black and brown.
I like to wear wrappers.
My job is to make kids eat me.
My family and friends are kids, mom, dad, grandma, and grandpa.
I would take a vacation to the North Pole.
My favorite holiday is Christmas and Halloween.
How I move is by a hand.
ChristinaI am a water bottle.
I live in

I am a kiwi.
I live in a tree.
My favorite colors are black and green.
I wear a thin skin and fur.
My job is to taste good.
My family and friends are apples, bananas, oranges, and watermelon.
I vacation all around the world.
My favorite holidays are Christmas and Easter.
I roll when I move.
Jazmine

I am a rat.
I live near a mouse trap.
My favorite color is grey.
I wear a scraggly grey coat with fuzzy grey pants.
My job is to pester.
My family are pigs and my best friend is a mouse that was eaten two weeks ago.
I love to vacation in the sewer.
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.
I move in a sly, skiddery motion. You can hear my feet pitter patter on the floor…..in your house!
Hanna

I am happiness.
I live in

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