ACARA Foundation-Year 2
— A child's poem captures Santa's journey through sound and motion — wind blowing, sleds trailing, rooftops clicking, presents clattering down chimneys.
— A turtle who sees her imagined worlds as real befriends a dog who helps turn her visions into actual houses they can share.
— A young poet reflects on the passage of time, the uniqueness of each day, and the mysterious nature of space in simple, contemplative lines.
— Two boys explain why frogs croak in rain: when clouds made god cry, the clouds turned gray and frogs began croaking 'it's okay' to comfort.
— A child discovers that the scary monster outside their door is actually lonely and scared, shrinking smaller with each act of kindness until it disappears.
— A year cycles through the seasons as Little Deer grows from playful fawn to father, echoing his own father's words about preparing for winter.
— A seed becomes a rose that grows tall as a dog, then withers each winter and returns, cycling through seasons year after year.
— A girl encounters a juggle man who accuses her of theft, leading to police involvement and a litany of her supposed misdeeds.
— A young poet cycles through the seasons with rhyming couplets, capturing each season's distinctive markers from falling leaves to fireworks to hibernating bears.
— A quiet poem captures night through four precise images: stars as sequins, moon on water, grass swaying like a rocking horse, silence like an empty page.