punctuation

the story is snow    
the children so the manual explains are to write a short poem mid week post punctuation    
editing and spelling tests as satisfying motivation    
it sounds a little bleak if you ask me but what do i know about children who have never seen    
snow you know in its bright fluff and stuff    
about children who spend their small days cuffed to the poverty line and the education system inhaling only what is deemed necessary or is addictive  
anyway    
we have power words to support their writing help them to use imaginative language and phonetically plausible ccvcs and    
punctuation    
of course i am left longing for a little extra    
something sparky and when i read the word pad on a power card yet not the word frozen i am perplexed and quickly discard it      
i sneak a card from the box beneath 1.5 and 1.6    
pen down the word frozen as if it is the night before christmas and i am peeking at presents    
on the floor    
before seeing the pupils    
i plan how to lead them to the word i have chosen    
i do not like forced choices    
   
begin by drawing a snowman on the whiteboard    
discuss how the children felt bending their fingers on a cold day    
discuss the way ice looks  
discuss the pictures of snow in books   
let their tongues flick ideas around the space bouncing off the walls around until frozen falls from the lips of an unsuspecting student    
and then move swiftly to paper and pencil    
where they will jot down information worthy of assessment so their progress may be tracked and a list made of things they are lacking    
meet the education criteria    
while still inspiring some hysteria    
on the last day bring in a bowl of fake snow    
leave it in the fridge the night before    
and in store for them is excitement    
something stimulating for the mind rather than something to satisfy the confines of humans need for proof    
children need no proof    
they need only to spend their youth freely    
on projects made for fun    
their enjoyment as a collective is very rarely monitored    
and certainly not for countrywide test scores