During our Summer break in Autumn my kids have taken to writing and illustrating poetry on their own. I even over heard them chatting about binding the book and making a page with the name of the poem and the page number. They're including blank pages so they can add to it when they "write more in the car or whatever".
Here is one of Emerson's
The Cat and The Bat
The cat sat on the bat
The bat sat on the cat
The bat sat on the cat
The cat sat on the bat
(he said one bat is a flying bat and the other is a baseball bat)
Annie's Poetry
Wind
Wind, Wind
Ripe and Wail
Take me to a land far away.
(here is her explanation of above,"The wind made me feel like I was in an apple orchard, so I wrote ripe and it was wailing so loudly and I wanted it to carry me away to New York)
A Land Above the Sun
A land above the sun and the moon
Oh, Where is it?
Oh, Oh, where is it?
