ACARA Foundation-Year 2
— A child catalogs what brings spring to different things — butterflies to flowers, waves to oceans — then finds their own spring in a kite against the sky.
— A malfunctioning air conditioner drips water into bowls and buckets, inspiring a child to create paper boats, invent ocean adventures, and sing along with the dripping sounds.
— A young poet captures summer through garden flowers, beach dresses, and ocean waves, ending with a wish for the season to stay.
— A lotus flower announces summer's arrival through flying petals, not knowing she herself embodies the season she proclaims.
— A reader transforms into knights, princesses, and trolls while reading beneath a summer tree, until sleep overtakes imagination.
— A delphinium searches for spring, not realizing she herself embodies spring's arrival in this brief poem about self-recognition and seasonal awakening.
— A child races through a darkening Ontario forest, heart pounding with fear, until their sister jumps out playing peekaboo and the world returns to normal.
— A young poet's repetitive meditation on the strangeness and nothingness of cactuses, built through simple observations and circular phrasing.
— A child's urgent poem captures the terror and escape from an erupting volcano, circling back to the image of the volcano at the center of everything.
— A young poet observes the ocean's mysteries—fish, sharks, treasure—while lamenting that its population is disappearing.