Animal Acrostic Poems

Miss Spinney's 1st and 2nd Grade Class

Prairie Crossing Charter School, Grayslake, IL

 

Parrots

Pretty
Air flyer
Rainbow colors
Rainforest
Often sits in trees
They have a lot of colors on their feathers
Super good flyers

By Kendall

Rabbit

Runs fast
Awesome
Bounces
Best at hopping
Is a pet
Tons of fun

By Brice

Butterfly

Beautiful
Uncool to animals
Tons of fun
Thin
Excellent animal
Really likes to fly
Four wings
Loves flying
Your yellow buddy

By Shane

Wild dogs

Wears a thin coat of fur
Is fast
Loves meat
Does live in Africa
Doesn't live in the rain forest
Often hunts bison
Goes quietly
Some attack some don't get a chance

By Ben

Cockatiel

Can be a pet
Often not seen
Cockatiels can fly
Kind of cool
A cockatiel eats berries
Tan colored face
I want this bird
Excellent
Life is good for a cockatiel

By Rosie

Turtle

Terrific
U do not want to kill them
Running slow
Trying to save their lives
Little but not so little
Eating plants and other foods

By Kathleen

Tarantulas

Terrifying (sometimes)
Awesome
Runs fast (sometimes)
Always can't spin webs
Never eats an elephant
Tiny
Unusual
Lives for 1 life
A tarantula has 8 eyes
Scary (sometimes)

By Anika

Polar Bear

Pretty big
Often sleeps
Loves to eat seals
Awesome
Really cool
Beautifully white
Excellent hunter
Amazing
Remembers where the hole of it's pray is

By Morgan

Pandas

Popular
Able to climb trees
Not an American animal
Dangerous sometimes
A really cool animal

By Claire

Bison

Big
Interesting
Strong
Often charges
Never eats meat

By Kyle

Tigers

Terrifying
In the wild
Gets it's prey eaten easily
Eats anything
Really ferocious beast

By Kevin

Seahorse

Sometimes lays eggs
Eggs
Always in the water
Has a tail
Orange
Really good swimmers
Says nothing
Enemies are crabs

By Mary Rose

Axolotl

All slippery
eXcellent at swimming
On land too
Likes water and land
One lake left with axolotls
There were two lakes but people drowned one
Likes to hide

By Katie

Indian Python

In the wild
Never lets it's prey get away
Doesn't eat elephants
An endangered species
Never takes naps
Prey to people
You would be afraid
They can kill you
Home in the wild
One of the biggest snakes in the world
Never in the water

By Trevor

Weasel

White sometimes
Eats rabbits
Awesome hunters
Sometimes sleeps
Especially good at pouncing
Likes it's home

By Charlie

Baboon

Best at running
Always eats something different
Best at climbing
Organized in troops
Often eats scorpions
Never eats people

By Graham

Arctic Wolves

Always hunt in packs
Really strong bodies
Camouflage
Tiring very little
In a variety habitats
Can turn white
Wild wolves
Often eat small mammal
Likes other wolves
Very mean
Especially thick fur
Superb hearing

By Sarah

Koala

Keeps furry
Often eat leaves from gum trees
Always female koala carries the babies
Loves other pandas
Awesome

By Lauren

Seals

Swim under water
Eyes can see in the dark
A sociable animal
Layer of fat
Shellfish and shrimp

By Kyle

Dolphin

Dolphins eat fish
Oily skin
Likes people
People like to swim with dolphins
Happy sometimes
In the winter they sometimes die
Never eat sharks and blue whales

By Kyle

Kangaroos

Keeps jumping
Always smart
Never eats its baby
Good
Always ready to jump
Ready to spring
Often carries joey in pouch
Other than a joey a kangaroo is awesome

By Krista

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Posted May 23, 2007