In our English lessons this week, we have started a new unit in which we are learning about poetry. We began the unit by looking at some poems that are very familiar to us all – nursery rhymes! We talked about all the nursery rhymes we could remember and then had our very own karaoke where we had a great time joining in together to sing and act out our favourite rhymes! We also talked about why we enjoy nursery rhymes so much – many of them have words and actions that are easy to remember, some of them are silly or funny and make us laugh and some can help us with our Maths learning as they include numbers and counting.
We then looked at a poem called ‘Purple is…’ We learned that this type of poem is called a list poem as it is written as a list of things that are purple.
Our next task was to have a try at writing our own ‘Purple is…’ poem. We began by looking at a collection of purple objects. We thought about adjectives that could be used to describe each object and we created our own list poem.
At the end of the week, we collected objects that are red, blue, green and yellow because next week we are going to be choosing one of these colours and writing our own list poem. We can’t wait to share these with you on Seesaw next week!
How you can help at home:-
- Have your own nursery rhyme sing-song at home – talk to your child about which is your favourite and why. Ask other family members about their favourite nursery rhyme.
- Encourage your child to choose a colour and collect objects of that colour from around the home. Can they think of some adjectives to describe the object and write their own list poem? We would love to see any poems uploaded onto Seesaw!