WHITTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WHITTIER ELEMENTARY SUMMER STEM

Teaching-Writer Colleen Brennan

Savannah Whittier Elementary School Summer STEM

Savannah, Savannah, Savannah. Sweet as fresh mangos, yellow like lemons. Sot and long. Smooth and fragile on your tongue. A place far away or close by. Savannah, Georgia. A place, city, town, a home, shares my name. Sweet, yellow, sot, smooth, fragile. A girl and a city share a name. A sot whisper, a nice breeze. My name Savannah, the sound of the wind. A whisper, a voice. Adair, second name. Pronounced A dare, not A deer or A-d-air. Adair, windy, sot, smooth like my irst. They it together like 2 puzzle pieces.

Shadle, passed down by father ater father, family to family. Shadle, said like “ladle.” Hard, sharp, and cold, the name is a shard of metal. Nothing like my other 2 names. Shadle, passed down by families going back so far, years, decades, or maybe centuries. Shadle, a name that feels like plunging into an ice cold lake.

Savannah, sot, long, smooth, fragile. Adair, a whisper, breeze, a voice. Shadle, ice cold, sharp, and hard. 3 names are mine.

Lamis Whittier Elementary School Summer STEM

My name is Lamis. I know what my name means, but I don’t know how I can explain my name in English. But I know it means “beautiful.” My mom, she gave me my name because before I was born, she was watching a movie and she saw this name and she liked it. My family calls me “Lolo.” Nobody in my family has my name. If my name were a color, it would be white, and it sounds like a compliment. It is the name of a nice girl.

CORAL

Finnian Whittier Elementary School Summer STEM

It is as cold as steel but as hard as rock. With calming smell but bitter taste. It thumps around while thousands in small caves call out to me. From a living thing to a dead thing, from water to land with its colors disappearing. Coral.

Austin Whittier Elementary School Summer STEM

Love dog, hate cat Ten apples up on top Minecrat is so awesome! Books, wood, new school, It’s okay, just stay cool! United we are Sky blue, lime green, sand-like brown. Elephant and pig It’s okay for now! Books are towers of stories.

THE HAPPY FLOWER

Morgan Whittier Elementary School Summer STEM

I see a happy lower. Its vibrant orange and bright yellow faded into each other express the true beauty of this happy lower.

The feeling of this happy lower is as sot as a peach And as delicate and an old vase. The sound is as quiet as a dark cave. The lower smells like nature, sweet and fruity. It tastes like sweet dirt.

This happy lower has a great place on this earth.

Deborah Whittier Elementary School Summer STEM

The hardest thing about being a writer is that your heart starts to hurt when you write and you run out of ideas, so you take a break and when you come back, you have an idea sometimes. But being a writer is about giving a lot of details to give your reader a better, clearer picture of your story. So it’s not all about writing; it’s also about how you write, what it’s about, and more. Being a writer is harder than you think.