The day is cold, frozen and wet;
Water and ice have met.
It is muddy, oh, so muddy...
The day is very cruddy.
Water is flowing and rain keeps on going
Until it's VERY muddy, oh so VERY muddy!
And the day is now more cruddy.
-Ryan Ault
Grade 6
'A Day in the Woods' was a ten-month project at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Environmental Education Center, led by 2007-08 Writer in Residence, Jessica Jones. Each week Jones worked with thirty students in one-hour workshops, during which students heard, discussed, and wrote nature poetry. After taking notes outside, students shaped their observations of the landscape into short poems that they then read aloud for constructive criticism and group recognition. For more, visit www.cvnpa.org.
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