From the Mouths of Babes
From the Hoop's perspective. Hooping meets a middle school English lesson! When Ms. Moon invited Superhooper.org to visit her 6th grade classes at Path Academy here in Atlanta GA, she asked her Language Arts students (after lots of hooping fun, of course!) to compose poems as if they were written by a hoop. What wonderful reminders of the childhood magic the hoop continues to inspire in us grown-ups!
I’m a hula-hoop
Shaped like a loop
It’s fun for me
It’s fun for you
I get dizzy
You do too.
- Abraham, age 12
WOW!
Wow! Hurray! What is it that I see?
Twirling, circles, spinning, big, motionless,
fun, slow, colorful. Ouch! Round, Turning,
painful, big, “It’s hard!” Difficult, too.
Cool, hard to do, exciting curing, incredible,
new, easy, laughter.
- Ubalda, age 11
I am dizzy, all I do is spin and turn.
When they spin me hard I
feel like I’m going to throw up.
I am colorful, I am round.
I can go all around.
You should try me – I’m really fun.
Also I turn really fast I can be
really fun. Guess what I am? A
hula-hoop. Am I not fun? Told you
I was.
-Ariana, age, 12
Hoolahooping
whoooo! whoooo!
spinning, twirling, swirling
it makes you want to be flying
you have fun and you laugh
you go slow you go fast
you never want to stop
Hoolahooping
- Yasanta, age 12
Turning,
burning,
out it goes,
out it shows,
in the holes.
- Yadria, age 11
Around and around
I go. In a bunch of colors
and from high to low. I go
fast. I go slow. I can’t stop.
I seem like a spinning top.
I feel free until I drop.
AND
Trying Something New
Watching someone hula hoop
is oh so great. You can’t
seem to hold on when you know you
have to wait. They swirl they
twirl oh how cool. They look like
a whirl pool. They do a bunch
of tricks. They do them oh so
quick. You just have to try it. I
recommend it to you. I know
you will enjoy it as much as I do.
- Itzel, age 12
I’m a hoop
going round-n-round
I’m like
a tornado, or a whirlpool, or a
little ballerina
I’m happy and not dizzy
because I’m used to
goin’ round-n-round
- Andrea, age 11
Wow! How cool but strange
this is. I’m going around and around twirling
in all directions. It makes me nauseous but
it’s cool. I wish I was higher.
I feel like I’m on top of the world.
-Niles, age 11
I’m twirling,
I have great bright colors
Which makes people’s day!
I am round. I bring kids laughter
and play.
I get hurt, but that’s OK!
I’m a hula hoop.
Hur-ray!
-Lizbeth, age 11
Hoola-Hoop
Hoola-Hoop
I go round and round
I go in so much circles mostly
I fall down
Hoola-Hoop
Hoola-Hoop
goes around your waist
you have to keep a good pace
-?
Rainbow colors
I’m red black
and pink
I’m like
An elevator
I can go up or
I can sink
you can only do
one trick with me
That’s what you think.
- Jordan, age 11
Spinny, spinny, spinny, spinny
I am spinny. I am also really
roundy
sometimes I can make
noise
I make a ringy sound
you
Could put me down and around
side by side
you
decide.
- Jouanny, age 12
I know
I’m fun and just
for you. I
come in a color
just for you.
like pink yellow and
funky blue
Remember
I’m just for
You!
- ?
Twirling spinning
is what I do
It is very fun
for me and for you
Big and round
is who I am
sometimes I can
get in a jam.
Round and round
I can go all day
with lights or fire
when you say.
If you want to know
me like that
just give me a call
and we will chat.
-Taylor, age 11
Colorful circles go
round and round.
Up and down they go
around your hand.
Are there tricks up your
sleeve? There are up mine.
twirl them, twirl them
then they fall down.
- John, age 11
Round, big, colorful, and fun
let’s play together ‘cause it’s
a lot of fun. Let’s play in
the middle of the sun. I’m
round and fun. I will help you
get in shape. So play with me
we will have so much fun. Do tricks
with me like walk, play, jump and
run
- Paola, age 12
I’m colorful
But also big and round
rotating fast but always
having fun.
I go high and low and twirling
around and around
- Karen, age 11
They drop me on the floor.
It really hurts.
I get back up & have some more
fun.
-Frederick, age 11
Hula’s life
I am heavy
But I am also light
Though you are sleepy
I am awake in the night
- Leopold, age 12
Fun exciting yea!
Don’t worry I finally
come to you who owns me
and loves me so much
this is from the hoola hoop
one.
- Gloria, age 12
Whirl, twirl, around my waist, let us
ninja hoop battle so that I can give you
a taste.
Oooh …
it moves so fast.
It is such a blast
as time blows past.
- Tyonne, age 12
Hula-Hoop’s Point of View
I turn
I churn
I go around
I get real dizzy
I touch the ground
They pick me up so
I don’t mind
What’s to be
I just hope
they don’t step on me
-Sharen, age 12
I am heavy, fun, circular, & round.
People take me all over the town.
- Raymee, age 10
What do I see?
I see people hula hooping
What do I see?
I see people laughing.
- Evi, age 11
I go up I go
down all around
falling down
with a
frown
Then night and
day we will
all play with
a smile on
our face
all in
place
-Cesar, age 13
I go up
I go down
I go all around
I even sit on the ground
I see my friend Zanab
Spinning me around
- Zanab, age 11
And a few students added poems about their own experiences hooping:
Hula Hoops
Hula hoops are big, small, and round.
Hula hoops can hit the ground.
They can be blue, yellow, purple, green, and brown.
Hula hoop is a fun game to play
Not all games you can play around with your
friends, laugh and giggle everyday.
While I’m hula hooping, I have no shame.
Just learning the ways of the game.
But watch out.
As I feel it slipping around my legs
I start to pout.
There it goes, it fell.
I lose, I think to myself.
I will wait my turn.
Soon, all hula hoops fall.
I look around to see not one, five, or
several, but all.
People are laughing everywhere.
So you see it’s not who wins or lose.
Play the game how you choose.
- Gabriel, age 12
When I’m with my hula hoop,
the hoop goes round and round.
But soon if I can’t hold it’ll
touch the ground.
The colorful circle is big and wide.
And when you play with it
you feel cheerful inside.
Both young and old can do it too.
Because there’s nothing to it –
so just do it!
You can hula everywhere –
in a store, in your room,
but not in your hair.
You hula on your arms, on your legs,
on your waist, on your neck,
on your ankle, but not on your face.
It’s big, it’s little, it’s any way you like.
It’s purple, green and it can even be striped.
So make sure you try it –
Come and see the wonderful thing
called
Hula Hoop
- Stephanie, age 11
