Riddle-Ku of the Day
I’m a metal snakewhose flickering silver tongue
bites into your lunch –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ?
HINT 1:
HINT 2:
TITLE (AND ANSWER):
FORK
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40 Responses
My kids got the answer! This is a great thing to do with haiku–make riddles! Actually for homeschool next week, my son and I are going to study haiku. I’ll have to have him try a riddle one! Thanks for the idea.
Thanks, Tina–riddle poems are really fun to write. I hope your son has a blast!
My kids got the answer! This is a great thing to do with haiku–make riddles! Actually for homeschool next week, my son and I are going to study haiku. I’ll have to have him try a riddle one! Thanks for the idea.
Thanks, Tina–riddle poems are really fun to write. I hope your son has a blast!
Thank you for doing this exercise all month Laura. I will be right there with you. SALAS POWER FOREVER!
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A shiny pronged spear
Piercing parts of this or that
For your consumption.
© Charles Waters 2014 all rights reserved.
Love this–I toyed with the idea of a spear metaphor, too. I decided to try to be accessible all the way down to K‑1, so mine are going to be pretty simple. Love those piercing parts.
Thank you for doing this exercise all month Laura. I will be right there with you. SALAS POWER FOREVER!
FORK
A shiny pronged spear
Piercing parts of this or that
For your consumption.
© Charles Waters 2014 all rights reserved.
Love this–I toyed with the idea of a spear metaphor, too. I decided to try to be accessible all the way down to K‑1, so mine are going to be pretty simple. Love those piercing parts.
I got it! I hope you don’t mind; I’m going to copy each one & keep a file so I can share with classes Laura. Thanks for this, & for the teacher pages too. Happy day!
Yay–and of course not! Enjoy!
I got it! I hope you don’t mind; I’m going to copy each one & keep a file so I can share with classes Laura. Thanks for this, & for the teacher pages too. Happy day!
Yay–and of course not! Enjoy!
Love the metal snake. My students guessed braces at first. They are posting anaphora poems today, A in the April ABCs.
Ooh, braces. Nice! It would actually be lovely for me to hear what ELSE kids guess besides the answer I had in mind. Thanks for sharing!
Love the metal snake. My students guessed braces at first. They are posting anaphora poems today, A in the April ABCs.
Ooh, braces. Nice! It would actually be lovely for me to hear what ELSE kids guess besides the answer I had in mind. Thanks for sharing!
Laura, my writing group meets tonight and your example with the fork gave me an idea for Riddle-ku as an exercise to share with my peers. I won’t be presenting pictures but my theme is spring cleaning and items found that once were lost. Hopefully the verses formed are illusive enough to offer mystery, yet familiar enough that they can identify the found object. Chances are the children would be quicker with an answer than my group will. ;-))
Oh, that sounds like fun, Martha! Yeah, kids are pretty good at this stuff:>) Have a great time!
I’m in Martha’s writing group and her riddles were fun! Thanks for this idea, Laura.
I’ve been working on poems for children, so this fits right in. Now if only I can get my creativity working as well as the kids 🙂
I bet they were, Pat. Glad my feature sparked something. Have you guys seen WHEN RIDDLES COME RUMBLING, an older collection by Rebecca Kai Dotlich. It’s *fabulous*! Check it out:>)
Thanks for suggestion. I’m going to the library today anyway, so I’ll check it out or put in a request.
Yay–I think it’s the first set of riddle poems I ever read (not that there are many around), and I just love it.
Laura, my writing group meets tonight and your example with the fork gave me an idea for Riddle-ku as an exercise to share with my peers. I won’t be presenting pictures but my theme is spring cleaning and items found that once were lost. Hopefully the verses formed are illusive enough to offer mystery, yet familiar enough that they can identify the found object. Chances are the children would be quicker with an answer than my group will. ;-))
Oh, that sounds like fun, Martha! Yeah, kids are pretty good at this stuff:>) Have a great time!
I’m in Martha’s writing group and her riddles were fun! Thanks for this idea, Laura.
I’ve been working on poems for children, so this fits right in. Now if only I can get my creativity working as well as the kids 🙂
I bet they were, Pat. Glad my feature sparked something. Have you guys seen WHEN RIDDLES COME RUMBLING, an older collection by Rebecca Kai Dotlich. It’s *fabulous*! Check it out:>)
Thanks for suggestion. I’m going to the library today anyway, so I’ll check it out or put in a request.
Yay–I think it’s the first set of riddle poems I ever read (not that there are many around), and I just love it.
Very fun. Thanks.
Thanks for dropping by, Rosi!
Very fun. Thanks.
Thanks for dropping by, Rosi!
I love this! And I love that the closeup photos can be riddles themselves, encouraging kids to really look closely.
Oh how I love April!
Thanks, Tricia! I wish I could really take super-close-ups. Many of mine are very obvious–but some will be a bit trickier:>)
I love this! And I love that the closeup photos can be riddles themselves, encouraging kids to really look closely.
Oh how I love April!
Thanks, Tricia! I wish I could really take super-close-ups. Many of mine are very obvious–but some will be a bit trickier:>)
It took me forever to figure out how to comment. 🙂
This is so very clever. I am in awe of your riddle poem, Laura.
It took me forever to figure out how to comment. 🙂
This is so very clever. I am in awe of your riddle poem, Laura.
I know the acer befor seeing the pic I like this one
I know the acer befor seeing the pic I like this one