Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word

Today a group of fifth grade students created poems inspired by those in the book, Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word by Bob Raczka and illustrated by Nancy Doniger.

This is such a fun book to share with students.  I love their "aha" moment when they see how he created them.  

I created a few:

Folktales

A

Feast

of 

Tall 

Talk

Astronomy

Any

Moon

As 

My 

Room

Here are some of the words we thought would be fun to work with:

Planets

Intelligent

Construction

Direction

Animals

Information

Awesomeness

Garden

I like how this student brainstormed words on the side first.

A 

nails 

slams 

in

nation 

in 

formation 

for 

information

hop 

goes 

bunny 

her 

gopher

Ron 

goes 

in 

A 

snail 

is 

a 

man?

I

 so 

got 

this

direct 

one 

on 

one 

in 

one 

direction

Flying

fur

sir

furry

squirrel

an

icon

a

falcon

flies

follies

are 

gone

llama

in 

a

mall

tell 

gentle

gent

in 

tent

some

one

saw

some

one

so

awesome

To

burn

torch

or 

to 

burn

 out

I 

strut 

instinct 

construct

old 

olive 

rivers

no 

mom 

on 

moon

pound 

under 

ground

If you are your students create squeezed poems, please share them with us!