Created by Mrs. Wheeler’s Fifth Grade Class 2009. Used as a part of my Fast and Slow Processes Unit.

1. Landform Poetry
Created by
Mrs. Wheeler s Fifth Grade Class
2009

2. ISTHMUS
I am a connective piece of land
So small, so thin so bland
The thing that keeps North and South America
connected
How many people thank me for the things that I do
Miles of ocean are around me always
Uniquely made from erosion I lay here everyday
Southerners migrate north along my surface
By: Maggie

3. Mount St. Helens
By: Norris
I live on a rocky throne,
no one lives on me I'm on my own.
They run scream and dash
when I decide to blow out ash.
When they think every thing is alright
I shoot up fire and light the night.
All their stuff is what they take
when I fill there houses with fiery lakes.
I am full of power
and over the world is where I tower,
I am strong
and my fiery rein will last a thousand life longs.
I am Mt. St. Helens.

4. Cottonwood Valley
By: Mecca
I AM A VALLEY
I WONDER HOW I WAS CREATED
I HEAR WATER FLOWING DOWN ME
I AM A VALLEY
I FEEL RAIN DROPPING IN MY RIVER
I WORRY IF I AM EVER GOING TO COLLAPSE
I TRY TO BECOME MORE STEEPER
I HOPE I CAN MAKE HOMES FOR ANIMALS
I AM A VALLEY

5. Mauna Loa
By: Amy
I AM VOLCANO MAUNA LOA
I WONDER HOW MUCH DAMAGE I WILL DO
I HEAR ME RUMBLING AS I AM ABOUT TO ERUPT
I SEE LAVA SPEWING OUT OF ME AS I AM ERUPTING WITH POWERFUL FORCE
I WANT TO STAY AWAY FROM THE WATER SO I CAN GET ALL MY ANGER AND
MADNESS OUT
I AM VOLCANO MAUNA LOA
I PRETEND TO QUIET DOWN AND THEN I BOOM OUT WITH A POWERFUL FORCE
I FEEL LAVA READY TO BURST OUT OF ME
I WORRY IF I AM GOING TO HURT A LOT OF PEOPLE
I CRY BECAUSE I AM IN PAIN BECAUSE THE LAVA IS SO HOT
I AM VOLCANO MAUNA LOA
I SAY I HOPE NOT MANY PEOPLE WILL GET HURT OR DIE FROM ME
I TRY NOT TO BURN DOWN A VILLAGE OR TOWN
I HOPE TO NOT KILL VERY MANY PEOPLE
I AM VOLCANO MAUNA LOA

6. Glaciers
By: Calyn
Glacier
icy, still
Crumbling, floating ,moving
Coldest of all landforms
Iceberg, sheet of ice

7. Volcanoes
By: Samantha
Home to people all throughout the islands,
Active volcanoes rolling with lava,
Waialele is a volcano located in Kaual,
A plane or ship is the only way to get there,
Islands make up Hawaii,
It s the coolest place to be, if you can get
there.

8. Mesa
by Daniel
Mesa,
tall, slick,
mean, death, fear,
dreadful, towering,
Mesa

9. Glaciers
by Anthony
I am made of cold ice,
I wonder when people are going to come,
I hear people coming up the mountain,
I see the sand under me,
I wan the sand to stop coming,
I am a glacier.
I am cold ice,
I move very slowly,
I love the big mountain,
I like a lot of sand,
I want to get bigger,
I am a big glacier.

10. Glacier
By Charlie
I am a glacier,
I see the chilly ocean,
I feel the cold wind pass by,
I touch the snow when it falls,
I smell the ocean breeze,
I hear the cracking of the ice.
I understand when I break up,
I pretend to crack,
I say I am ready to move
I dream of when the world was ice,
I hope I can get away,
I try to break away,
I am a glacier.

11. Glaciers
by Charlie
Grinding rocks off of mountains,
Leaving rocks and soil behind me when I melt,
Always wanting to leave my mark,
Carrying soil and rock when I pass over,
I am always on the move across the land,
Erasing the surface of the earth,
Riding on the ocean s liquid.

12. Volcano
by Anna
Volcano
hot, fiery,
tall, steep, rocky,
looking over the world
cone-shaped.

13. Mount St. Helens
by Janea
I am Mount St. Helens
I wonder what other volcanoes are doing
I hear people talking about my eruption
I see people walking on my old, hard lava
I want to have my warm top back on me
I am Mount St. Helens.
I pretend that nothing happened in 1980,
I see my lava trying to calm down,
I tough many things with my steamy lava,
I worry about when I m going to explode
again,
I cry over all of the damage I ve made,
I am Mount St. Helens.

14. Mesa
by Lanette
Mesa,
flat, steep,
dry, layered, rocky
Great Basin, front range,
beauty, climbing,
Mountains.

15. Volcano
by Cody Grasse
Volcano,
fiery, hot
tall, large, fearful,
high in the sky,
deadly.