more poetry

Covering again today so, following on the success of yesterday - did another poem! We're having quite a big turn over of pupils at the moment with lots leaving and quite a few arriving. We decided to do a poem about a new (fictitious) classmate. Each line/page is supposed to be read in a questioning tone;

 

Did you spot the spelling mistake in my dummy draft? Must have had brain fade by that point. Again, the 'book' was created from one (A3) sheet of paper with the same pop-up mechanism - but this time with the addition of the 'fire' coming out of the dragons mouth!

poetry

At short notice today I had to cover one of our Y2 classes. They've been studying dinosaurs and are about to do a Literacy unit on poetry - so I combined them and, together, we created a collaborative poem. After brainstorming rhyming words we drafted out a simple 4 line poem. I then showed them how it could be presented as a small booklet where the surprise (the loud roar) isn't revealed until the last page by means of a pop-up! This is my example that I quickly mocked up whilst the children were in assembly. I guided them step by step through creating their own - which they eagerly took home at the end of the day to 'scare' their parents!

 

Front cover;

 

 
This pic shows how we constructed the book from a single sheet (the standard origami book).

Poe-tree

Today in Y3 we constructed Poe-trees! These are card 'sculptures' from which hang word leaves - on which will be written anything to do with poetry (hence the name) - rhyming words, notable phrases, WOW vocabulary etc. They are designed to be interactive and can be altered as appropriate. The children had great fun making them.