Spotlight on Learning: 6th Grade Promotion Poem
6th Graders finished their last year at Sunrise Valley Elementary School with a piece of reflective writing. The following poem, by student Iona Bendernagel, was highlighted at the 6th grade promotion ceremony for students, staff, parents, and community.
Weaving Together a Year
By Iona Bendernagel
Under over, repeat
This project ends our year of art,
Shows all we have learned
The ups and downs woven together
The thread of projects, friendship
The weave has its mistakes
Regrets and joy woven together
Tiny knots of tragedy, triumph
Holds the weave together, a mark that can’t be unseen
Weeks of work, dull to some, fun to others
Painstakingly made, felt like forever
Now our weave is done
Our years are done
Milkweed, ancient lands, staring
at a screen.
Hundreds of threads
the memories woven together
A new thread begins