WritingFix is currently seeking a 3rd-6th grade student's sample from this writing assignment that can be featured in this space. Submitted student work must show evidence of revision, editing, and the final draft must be typed and sent through e-mail. Teachers: if you can help us obtain up to three student samples, along with a digital photo of the students and a signed permission slips, we will send you either a complimentary copy of the Northern Nevada Writing Project's Elementary Writing Guide, or you may choose from any of our NNWP publications.

Write to us at publish@writingfix.com and use 'Little Toy Friends' in your e-mail's subject line, if you have a student sample to share with us.

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Throwing a Frisbee
by Connor, eighth grade poet

Throwing a Frisbee
Flying back and forth
Then the wind starts
The Frisbee disappears

Weeks later
Most hope is lost
Seeming lost ever
Then a sign of hope

It is found
Hanging on a branch
Looking as high as the cloud
Really only a hop high

Holding it once more
Seeing the story it has to tell
It speaks to me
It speaks very well

It has heard the howling wind
It has listened to the morning chirps of birds
It has seen arrows of geese
It has squinted through the glare of the sun

It has smelt freshly cut grass
The smell of summer air
The taste of dry leaves
The refreshment of rain

It screams what it felt
The hail raining down
The burning of the sun

It whines about its mentality
Great feelings of freedom
Free of sweaty hands
Feeling of loneliness

All is well in the end
Now it has a friend again.

(Click here to view/print Connor and five of his classmates' poems.)

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