Diamante poems

1

Numbers

greater lesser

adding subtracting multiplying

graph balance phonetics semantics

reading writing editing

prose poetry

alphabets

2

Teacher

skillful knowledgeable

educating coaching instructing

professor mentor undergraduate intern

practicing performing excelling

scholarly intellectual

Student

3

Night

dark starlit

sleeping moonlight hooting

Hedgehog firefly elephants giraffes

bright sunny cloudless

Day

Counting by Two's

Cute little gummy bears
That I want to share
Two for Tommy and
Four for me
Six for my sister
Eight for later
And ten for the theater!!!



11.01.2007

Counting by tens

Ten rows of mangoes
Twenty ripe peaches
Thirty tart tangerines
Forty fine apples
Fifty juicy strawberries
Sixty sweet nectarines
Seventy sour grapes
Eighty yummy bananas
Ninety nutritious nuts
Hundred huge watermelons!!!

Counting by five’s

Five beehives full of honey
Ten piggy banks full of money
Fifteen chocolate ice cream
Twenty topped with whipped cream
Twenty-five tortillas to eat
Thirty filled with meat
Thirty-five donkeys dancing
Forty horses prancing
Forty-five monkeys jumping
Fifty bears growling
Fifty-five flowers swaying in breeze
Sixty Popsicles to freeze
Sixty-five Christmas wishes
Seventy gold fishes
Seventy-five toothpicks
Eighty magic tricks
Eighty-five new friends
Ninety New Year cards to send
Ninety-five nuts to chew
Hundred percent true!!!

Numbers 1 to 12

One two three

Apples on a tree

Four five six

Whoever picks

Seven eight nine

Found not one that’s fine

Ten eleven twelve

Fell into the well!