Our Math Teacher’s Missing
From the book A Festival for Frogs
Our math teacher’s missing.
He cannot be found.
We’ve looked high and low but
he’s nowhere around.
We peeked in the classrooms.
We peered through the doors.
We looked in the lockers
and dug through the drawers.
We dropped by the office.
We searched in the halls.
We ran through the bathrooms
inspecting the stalls.
He’s not on the playground
or out on the lawn.
It’s hard to believe, but
our math teacher’s gone.
We can’t say for sure, but
we’re starting to think
it could be because we
have sort of a stink.
And, probably, nothing
has happened to him.
He just knows our math class
is right after gym.
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 2
Topics: School Poems
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Idioms, Narrative Poems
Word Count: 116
From the book A Festival for Frogs
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