Snow Day
Snow day
Snow play
A time from school to be away
Hillsides so bright
No lessons to write
Just reading, sledding, and snow cones to bite
A snowman we built
On nature's white quilt
No worry, no hurry, no stress nor guilt
"I'll get a carrot for a nose!"
And up the hill she goes
Up to the house, running in joy,
my daughter wearing her
warm snow clothes
Back she ran
Carrot in hand
A girl with a mission, a storm-inspired, child-like plan
And two stones for eyes
To look up at the skies
Snowman complete, returning inside we decide would be wise
So to hot cocoa we go
In a house where we know
Our beautiful snow day will continue to flow
Author: Lanny Ball
For more than 29 years, Lanny has taught, coached, presented, staff developed, and consulted within the exciting and enigmatic world of literacy. With unyielding passion and belief in the possibility of workshop teaching, Lanny has worked to support students, teachers, and school administrators around the country in outgrowing themselves as both writers and readers. Working first as a classroom teacher, then as a coach and TCRWP Staff Developer, Lanny is now a literacy specialist, working and living in the great state of Connecticut. Outside of literacy, he enjoys raising his three ambitious young daughters with his wife, and playing the piano. Find him on this blog, as well as on Twitter @LannyBall. Lanny is also a former co-author of a blog dedicated to supporting writing teachers and coaches that maintain classroom writing workshops, twowritingteachers.org.
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LANNY BALL, Literacy Specialist 
This is such a joyful poem! I love the rhythm. I can easily see it as a picture book!
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This is wonderful!! Love the flow of words and the images they create! NOw I want a snow day too to go sledding or to build a snowman!
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It was a great snow day!! And perfect snowman snow. Love that you captured the playfulness in a poem!
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Oh the joy of a snow day! Makes me jealous. 😉 I love the hyphenated adjectives: “a storm-inspired, child-like plan”
I agree with Kathleen. This could definitely be a picture book!
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Enjoyed this so much, Lanny! I think I will read this to my kids today! I felt the joy when reading it, and it made me long for another snow day.
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Love the images “a snowman we built, on nature’s white quilt” and “snow cones to bite” You have captured the joy of a snow day, though I’m hearing from the kids around here that they’d like it if they didn’t have any more this year.
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Those were some of my favorite images as well. I also liked picturing the snowman looking up.
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Awesome. So vivid. So much imagery. So playful. I hope you use this as a mentor piece in class because it’s perfect.
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I hope you don’t mind I shared your poem with my 2nd grade class. Here is what they thought… “We love snow days and your topic! We like your rhyming. We like your line breaks and how each stanza has a different amount of lines. We liked the font you chose. We liked how you focused in the middle on a specific moment.”
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Oh wow, I’m so honored! Thanks for sharing the feedback with me!
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Snow inspired child like plan… two stone eyes to look up to the skies. This made me smile.
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