This is the last week of school and it’s Poetry Week! You all did an amazing job last week showing your creativity through your artwork.
This week, we want you to get creative with your writing and feel inspired by your reading – and any other place you can find inspiration.
Here is a grid of suggested activities to try out during the week:
You will have no books to read this week, only poems that your teacher puts on Seesaw for you each day. There will be lots of different types of poems for you to enjoy – verse, rhyming poems, nonsense poems, haiku, cinquain, funny poems, shape poems, Irish poems. You don’t have to do anything other than listen to the poems, read them and enjoy them. Of course if you feel like drawing a picture to illustrate a poem, or recording yourself reading a poem, we would love to see your pictures and hear your recordings!
There will also be animated videos of poems for you to enjoy.
We’d also love you to try writing some poems yourself. Your teacher will give you activities to try out during the week on Seesaw, but you can write any sort of poem about anything you like – we’d love to read them all! You’ll find some ideas in the Poetry week grid above.
One of the ideas you’ll find is about keeping an inspiration journal – a journal where you write down your ideas. This is what all the best writers do, and it would be a great week to start doing this.
Watch this video of famous poet Roger McGough talking about how he writes his poems and how his funny ideas sometimes come together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZznvMT2vw&feature=youtu.be
Some of your poems will even be featured on the school website – so keep an eye on that too!
Useful links to Poetry Videos:
John Hegley on poems: Guardian children’s books podcast | Children’s books | The Guardian
Celebrate Poetry Day with Joseph Coelho – children’s books podcast | Children’s books | The Guardian
Roger McGough reads ‘The Sound Collector’
Roger McGough – How do you go about writing your poetry
Dr Seuss Green Eggs And Ham
Chocolate Cake | POEM | Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Silly Old Baboon
A poem is….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYqfKqVZmG4
How to write an acrostic poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfLTzCAuIv8
How to write Limericks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfmTrw3X8-w
How to write haiku:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb6RC0zB_-4
Spike Milligan – The Car Trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb6RC0zB_-4
Once I laughed my socks off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRuz6fadjEw
The Fish that couldn’t climb trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csbban5TtQk
The Jaberwocky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBFSiGDZC-Y
There’s a crocodile in my lunchbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWuf0YHoYgo
On the Ning Nang Nong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUU1f3Mgpc
The Worm that wouldn’t wiggle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDG2-bxpno0
There’s a crocodile in my lunchbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWuf0YHoYgo
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