Welcome back after the Easter holidays everyone! We have started a new topic in English called Free Verse Poetry.
Free Verse poems are very special. There are very few rules of what you must do or have. Poems don’t need to rhyme or follow a pattern. You are free to write what you wish and how you want.
We have been reading Free Verse poems from the most wonderful book ‘Out and About: A first book of Poetry’ by Shirley Hughes. It has wonderful illustrations which reflect the theme in each poem.
The weather has welcomed us back to Merry Hill School by giving us torrential rain, with lots of puddles to splash around in on the playground and a bounty of squelchy mud to dig with in the forest. This has linked in really nicely with two of our poems: ‘Mudlark’ and ‘Water’. Panthers and Lions have been reading the poems aloud with expression and remembering all of the positive things about rain and mud.
After we talked about things we like in nature, we discussed lots of other things we like. Our ideas included, but were not limited to:
Animals: Lions, dogs, pandas, dolphins.
Toys: lego, mermaids, puppets, superheroes, racing cars, cuddly teddies.
Food: chocolate cake, pizza, macaroni cheese pizza, McDonalds, ketchup, burger sauce, ice cream and mayonnaise.
Lions voted as a class and decided to write a poem all together about Ketchup!
Here are our ideas for our Ketchup Free Verse Poem:
It looks like:
It could be the red of a rose, different shapes like swirls and round blobs or red rivers of tomato.
It sounds like:
The locking click the bottle makes, the shaking of the bottle or the anti-social air sound which comes out of the bottle when it is nearly empty and you are trying to squeeze out the last drops!!
What does it smell, taste and feel like?
What do we like doing with ketchup?
How You Can Help At Home:
- Read aloud/ perform a free verse poem and upload it on Seesaw.
- Discuss which fruits or vegetables you like to eat at home, to link to our PSHE topic ‘Healthy Me’. Can you try a new piece of fruit or vegetable this week?