Periodic Table Tankas 2024
Tankas by LHS chemistry students honoring the 155 th Anniversary of the Periodic Table (March
6, 2024). Tankas are Japanese poems consisting of five lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern.
Elements are fun
There are periodic groups
These are in columns
There are groups of periods
These go horizontally
By Jayden Thorell
When you hear fizzles
Only one thing comes to mind
One that outlives all
But what could it be, oh it’s
The Periodic Table
By Tatiana Guerrero
Rows and columns shine
Elements in ordered dance
Tables rhythmic beat
Each symbol a masterpiece
Happy Birthday big table!
By Gerardo Alvarez-Victoria
Joyous occasion
of your anniversary
Helps in chemistry
Your elements all around
Forever a world treasure
By Maritza Gaitan
Today comes in bright
Happy anniversary
to the elements
Without it we would be dumb
Thanks to it we know big things!
By Ana Torralba
Elements are clear
Oganesson brings up rear
My life is better
When it accompanies me
Happy Birthday to chemistry GOAT!
By Braden Bender
Elements are cute
Happy birthday to my friend
Wish you many years
Please don’t be hard on others
So you’ll be loved even more.
By Abrianna Reynosa
Friend of chemistry
Neat and Effortless to use
My best friend for class
Creating brilliant minds
Congrats on one-fifty-five!
By Alizia Alvarez
It’s your big day!
Let us celebrate, hoo-ray!
Columns, periods
Fluorine keeps all your teeth clean
Carbon, helium, chlorine
By Harley Sund
It makes Juniors cry.
Elements make me crazy.
Chem has been a haze.
There’s so many elements.
It’s big like those elephants.
By Christian Burton
One hundred eighteen
are the elements involved.
Let’s party all night!
All chemists around the world
shall eat cake, Happy Birthday!
By Gerardo Alvarez-Rodriguez
It is my best friend.
I use it almost daily.
Makes chem easier.
Contains seven periods.
Celebrate the elements!
By Hannah Scharf
One-fifty-five years
Wow! Periodic Table!
Wisdom infinite.
You help me pass chemistry.
Thanks a lot for existing.
By Jesus Gomez
Table born today
Elements with many names
So many numbers
All aligned in their own way
Sometimes it can be a pain
By Henry Velasquez
Happy birthday to
the Periodic Table
Made by Mendeleev
Here since the eighteen-sixties
Helping all the scientists
By Ngonidzashe Chitnumba
The Periodic Table
Elements are atoms
Groups and periods are
organized to sort atoms
Table made by Mendeleev
By Gerardo Navarrete
Many elements
Make up small particles
Making up the world
Many different charges
My friend and my enemy
By Xavier Munoz
It’s the big table
Something we all look up to
This precious knowledge
And elements so divine.
An important thing to know.
By Chaigne Whetstine
One-fifty-five years!
Lined up in rows and columns
Father Mendeleev
Our chemical acquaintance
There to yield tough equations
By Andrea Melendez
Such a helpful friend
You come in clutch for chem tests
Thanks for your service
Without you I would be dead
All of your perfection
By Alexa Jimenez
Science has subjects…
So diverse and different;
But chemistry is
our favorite because of
the periodic table.
By Delaney Stewart
Anniversary
Of Periodic Table
For nomenclature
Organizes elements
And tells us atomic mass
By Jennifer Najera
Elements are fun
Hydrogen is the first one
If you don’t love it
You are a negative mole
Happy Anniversary
By Leonel Navarro
Elements are weird
Elements can be silly
But the elements
The reason we celebrate
You don’t mess with the sphere earth
By David Arevelo
Rows are periods
Atoms are smallest particle
Lithium is 3
Elements are everywhere
155 Years!
By Yovana Contreras
Something important
The periodic table
helps with chemistry
It’s made up of elements
Sectioned groups and periods
By Vanessa Lopez
Elements in rows
Mendeleev’s greatest design
Protons and Neutrons
Chemicals make substances
Also crazy reactions
By Adrian Lopez
Without it I cry
It is my best friend for life
Table is useful
It puts a smile on my face
when I use it everyday
By Juan Lemus
Elements are cool
You didn’t know? You’re a fool.
F-U-N describe
The feeling will make you thrive
Party with chemistry tribe
By Jonny Vasquez
All the elements
Put in groups and periods
Chemical events
Result from this myriad
Reactions are soon to come
By Dominick Villalon
Elements align,
thanks to Mendeleev’s bright mind.
In rows and columns,
they are all placed nice and neat.
So you don’t fail chemistry,
By Jorge Zamora
Periods and rows
One hundred fifty-five years
Meet the earth table
By Dimitri Mendeleev
What wonderful elements!
By Ella Young
One through one-eighteen
The Periodic Table
Turned one-fifty five
Happy anniversary
Going one-fifty-five strong!
By Aliza Alvarez
On the classroom wall
How delight one-fifty-five
So divine yet cruel
Showing creation plus bane
Thanks periodic table.
By Rigoberto Arias
Beginning of chem
Understanding the table
Still has not ended
Fundamental, essential
The periodic table
By Gaby Perez
Due to Mendeleev
Each element found a place
in rows they align
He created the table
which contains all elements
By Zuheb Maday
Praise the almighty
O’ the table of the gods
Mendeleev blessed us
Atoms whispering in rhyme
The table secretly shines
By Benjamin Gonzales
Mister Mendeleev
My paranoia eats me
Always casting doubt
A table of gibberish
It’s not a game I can change
By Emanual Zuniga
Mendeleev made it
So we must give him credit
in every chem book.
A table that tells me all.
Thank you for all the knowledge
By Antonio Espinoza
has always been found
since the beginning of time
mix of elements
make up parts of the human
and are found in the earth’s crust
By Julissa Ortiz
Mendeleev…why? why?
Why make the table? Just why?
You make me confused.
You make everyone confused.
You make me want to quit school.
By Diana Ramirez
I love chemistry
There is one thing I love more
which Mendeleev made
The periodic table
Thanks, Ms. Klein, for teaching me.
By Eduardo Duarte
