What? Two posts in ONE day? Well, it IS National Poetry Day after all so we need to celebrate it!
Today, our year 6 children had a go at a difficult task. I printed off random images from the internet, popped them into a bag, and asked them to choose one. The selected picture would be their visual prompt for a poem they had to write in ten minutes.
You should have heard the groans of despair. The ‘I can’t do this, Miss!’ and the ‘Do I have to?s’. But THEY DID! And these are some of the results. I am dead impressed and hope you are too.
The Shining Ball, by Alfie
The sun
Glistening
Off the delicate
Glass ball
The feathers
Are burning
Yellows
The wet
Grass
Shining from
The Sun
Charlie Cooper, by Duke
National Galleries of Scotland
Charlie Cooper
Was a skater
But he had to go to tea a bit later.
He was off in a hurry
To get some coffee
Before he was off to the ice rink.
Like an elegant swan he skated
Stopping for a break, he gloated
About how great he was.
Pufferfish, by Luke
Pufferfish
Human in the
Ocean
Top of the food chain, they eat
Octopuses, they
Smell like
Overweight
Poo.
Flying
All over the
Internet’s
Locker.
What a creative way to
Celebrate Poetry Day
Now I am tempted
To have a go and
Write a thing or two
On my own!
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Wow – fantastic stuff, Natasha! Really pleased you sent this in to us!
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