The Creak of His Bicep is Insane!

Continuing our work with sound in writing, on Tuesday, we played more sound games, and then talked about what it means when two words rhyme. After establishing a basic definition, we warmed up with a cowboy-ish game called QUICKDRAW, and the kids LOVED it. After our warm up, we broke up into two groups and had rhyme races, coming up with lists of words that rhymed. I asked the students to write short, silly poems using their rhyming words, and you'll find those in their folders at the end of camp. We then moved on to talk about Onomatopoeia, when a word is spelled and sounds like the sound it is expressing. Good examples are whoosh, clap, shriek, and bang. The writers loved this concept, and so I asked them to create a story or poem that introduced a superhero to their readers using as many sound words as possible. Their results are inventive, silly, and all-together entertaining!! Enjoy!

A Cool Super Hero
Cecilia G.

This is Dolphin Girl.
She is a superhero
that makes a noise
like splish-splash
when she takes a bath
in water world where
she lives.

She makes a noise like
flip-flop when she walks
in her water shoes.

She makes a noise
like whish when she
zooms through the water.
The water goes whoosh
when she flies out of it.


Mark/Remarkable
by Maple C.

When I was five I knew a girl named Remarkable. I called her Mark. Everyone said that Mark was a witch. When she was a baby, her parents would take her out of the house on outdoor trips. When she cried out a certain way, instead of a wail the sound CRASH, SMASH, BANG, BOOM would come out. Her parents rushed her home and found three of their most beautiful plates in pieces on the floor. People in town used to say that when Mark was two and three, if she stared at things a certain way, she could make them rise off the ground and then she would take her eyes off them, and they would fall down on the floor and break with a CLING CLANG DING DONG BONK HONK CRUNCH BOING WOOSH CRACK WHAM SLAP. The object would live no more. When she was four and five, she has all of the powers I have told you about, plus she saved people all the time (including me). I know nothing more of her, since I moved away here, to Evanston, but I hear her sometimes even though I cannot see her. POP TOOT – oh, I think that’s her talking to you again. I’ll look for her, but I don’t think I will have much success.


Crazy McBottles Head
by Ronni L.

Here I am introducing you to my superhero. Her is Crazy McBottles Head. When she wakes up, she zooms into her hot tub. In the tub it goes clong-clong-vroom-zap-crackle. She says gurgle gurgle. She gets dressed. Creak-wham-crack-ching-clatter-pop-toot-sizzle-slap-cluck. When she flies, it sounds like this tick-tock-tick-tock-growl-ring-bloop-buzz-peep-cling-clang-ding-roar-bang-bash-smack-POW.


Strongo Person
by Caelen B.

He has the strongest muscles in the galaxy, and the biggest hands, in the galaxy of cookies and milk. He likes to snort when he clip-clops on his horse Pokone, who is a big fan of his hero. NEIGH says the pony! The creak of his bicep is insane! Smack. Psssst…Strongo Person! I got these cookies in the lobby! That was BOOM! HE\e is Strongo Person’s #1 fan. He goes on missions with him. Zap, vroom, clong – it’s time to go on a mission. Strongo Person fights all the basic goodies: Superman, Hulk, Fantastic Four… where were we? Oh yeah! Mission! Got it! Let’s go! Well, this time, Strongo Person lost, and now he’s in the hospital.


Freckle-Faced Three Year Old
by Zinnia S.

She is 3 years old and
can turn into a lizard.
When she wakes up, she
has a built in alarm
clock on her foot. It goes
buzz every morning at 8 o’clock.
When she eats a crunching
sound comes out.
When she brushes her teeth
a grinding sound comes.
She has curly blue and green striped
hair and a lightening bolt
on her forehead. When she’s
playing, her hair bounces
up and down. When she
goes on adventures, she
helps the world as much
as she can. When she
walks across the floor,
the floorboards creak and
squeak. When she drives her
car a vroom vroom sound
comes. When she sings
it burns our ears red
and makes us growl.

The Vomitating Hero
by Nicholas M.

A hero that when the villain comes, he screams like a girl. When he is done with his toilet, a crack is heard into two and then the villain crashes his head into the wall. A wham was heard. Ching all the money came out of his mouth and a crunch of teeth when out of his mouth and he vomitated on his face and he felt and got some worms. boing he takes the worms and puts them in his eyeballs then buzz the bees come. They went to his house and with a motorcycle vroom they go to the villain’s mouth. cluck he ate them up.


Big Foot
by Madeline D.

Big Foot is a little man with a big huge foot. He has long flowing red hair, and a stylish red mustache. When he walks, his big flowing red hair says, “wish wash, wish wash” and his big foot says “slap boom slap”. So when he walks, all together it sounds like: “swish woosh slap smach smach boom woosh.” Big Foot can control his hair to grab people and bring them to safety. And just in case, his mustache knows lip-to-lip CPR. Big Foot is also a psychologist. Once, he saved a platypus from food poisoning and another time, his big foot distracted someone from staring at the sun too long and blinding themselves. “Blam!” some army ants are on their way.” Big Foot to the rescue!