For World Poetry Day in Year 2, focused on shape poetry, more specifically shape poetry surrounding the Environment. By combining these two topics together the children createdpoems inside a tree. Our focus was on rhyming words related to trees, this led to many amazing lines of poetry within the children’s work, we hope you enjoy this selection:
“Up up up, in the canopy,
when I bloom my roots will zoom,
down to the ground,
never making a sound.
My roots are covered with mounds of soil,
but I don’t need oil!
All I need is a little soil”
“Trees have lovely roots,
but people have big sore boots.
Trees have branches, fruits and leaves,
that will float away on the softest breeze”
In Year 1 we have been doing a poetry quiz. We practised our model text ‘If I had wings’ and then answered questions about the vocabulary used. We also read poems from Gargling with Jelly and watched Michael Rosen perform several ‘nonsense’ poems. The children have really got a grasp of how diverse poems can be.
Reception classes have been listening to poems throughout today and enjoying the rhyme and silliness of them, whilst over in Nursery the children have been practicing singing their poetry – No spoilers allowed though for mums.
Year 4 took advantage of the beautiful weather today and read poetry to each other in the Eco Garden. A few even wrote about their own experiences and thoughts and performed their own poems.
Our celebration of World Poetry Day has seen the children share serious poems, rhyming poems, funny poems, silly poems, side-splitting poems and laughed together alongside their teachers sharing their favourite poems.
