ACARA Foundation-Year 2

Poetry·Iris Chalfen, age 8 — A child captures the moment of falling asleep after shared laughter, hiding a precious feeling deep inside for safekeeping.

Poetry·Eily A. Chiu, age 9 — A child greets morning in a garden filled with roosters, geese, flowers, and a brook, experiencing each element as a gift from the natural world.

Personal Narrative·Mason Li, age 8 — A student navigates the emotional journey of taking a Chinese test, from initial focus through panic about a forgotten word to final triumph.

Poetry·Eva Denne, age 9 — A young poet imagines a circus where clowns juggle cookies, lions jump through donuts, and magic makes everything disappear.

Poetry·Eva Denne, age 9 — A child watches a rainstorm from inside, observing trees, droplets, and a struggling car, then feels grateful for shelter from the downpour.

Personal Narrative·Noa McCarter, age 8 — After hitting his first double, a boy finds a rare goldfinch feather, loses it, then recovers it days later for his collection.

Poetry·Blythe Davis, age 9 — A child observes how her cat's contented tiredness differs from human exhaustion and imagines a world where we could all be tired in that peaceful, satisfied way.

Poetry·Katie Furman, age 10 — A child's vision of a starlit doorway where wonder transforms darkness into clarity, eyes become windows to the soul, and grass appears dreamlike.

Personal Narrative·Elise Cheung, age 8 — A girl visits Taiwan's Houtong Cat Village, where villagers care for hundreds of stray cats, and forms a special connection with a hungry orange tabby kitten.

Poetry·Autumn E. Weinreich, age 6 — A young child's rhythmic plea to a new cat, asking it to be their companion and dubbing it 'The Tuna Cat' with playful repetition.