The document discusses imagination and creative thinking. It includes ideas from children about what imagination is, such as thinking about things that aren't real or pretending. The children then share what they imagine when looking at clouds or closing their eyes. The class had a poetry activity where they made cloud paintings based on a cloud parade poem and tried to guess each other's clouds. The document shows the creative ideas and imaginative thinking of the students.

1. Imagine that By: The Pirates

2. “Imagination is a powerful tool for thinking and expressing ourselves”

3. What is Imagination? Thinking about things that aren’t real – Sophie When you sleep, you see pictures of things – Jae Ho Thinking about something that you KNOW isn’t real – Maher and Morgan Using your own mind – Fleur Pretending to be Mario – Luc When you are sleeping, you dream – Bayarchimeg

4. When I close my eyes, I imagine… I am on top of the sea. -Somya I am playing Plants vs. Zombies - Noah Going in the Twilight castle. -Sriya Riding a horse. -Lillian I am playing Mario vs. Dkong. Junhong I am in Candyland and in the garden. -Shyrine

5. When I look up at the sky I see clouds. I think clouds are made of… Water… a cloud is full of water. – Augie Gas… it comes from the cars. – Gustav Mostly water, you see when it rains the water from the lake goes up. No! wait, clouds happen before it rains. – Connor Air and fluff… the clouds are white because of the fluff. But I don’t know how the fluff gets up there. - Alyssa

6. Imagination and Poetry Our poem last week was “Cloud Parade.” The Pirates really liked the poem so we decided to make our own cloud parade inside the classroom. We closed our eyes on the carpet and imagined what would be in our cloud parade. After that, we took some blue paper to make it our sky. Then we used our fingers to make some cloud paintings. The best part was when we went around our classroom to guess what was in our friend’s cloud parade. Come and see the Pirate’s Cloud Parade!

7. A circle? An alien spaceship car driving on space?

8. A boy shooting? A girl in the snow?

9. A lion? A duck?

10. A dolphin? A heart?

11. A hamster? A clown?

12. A girl? A dragon?

13. A frog and a moose? A clock?

14. An elephant? A white tiger?

15. A jellyfish? Mario popping a question mark?