This week, the Year Twos are starting to learn about poetry. Today students learned how poetry is a way of arranging and manipulating words to create unique views of the world, and that a writer combines words in order to share thoughts of feelings about a subject. Students have the opportunity during Projects and Provocations to explore the words on our magnetic poetry wall and create poems of their own. If your family has a favourite poem, please bring it in to share!
Writing poetry requires the writer to be selective in choosing words, and carefully consider the meaning. We examined haiku and acrostic poems, and even started to write some of our own. Using the Halloween Disco as our subject, we considered syllables of words to create short, three line poems that described students’ experience the Halloween Disco. The first line has 5 syllables, the second has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables again.
Candy, mentos, sweets
Excited children dancing
Overcome your fears!
Creepy skeletons
Disco dancing in the gym
Scary, ghouly ghosts
Noisy music plays
Spooky night at the school
Zombie face painting
We also had a go at writing an acrostic poem, first picking a subject and then brainstorming words and sentences that connected to our subject using the letters in chosen word as a starting point. Luke suggested writing about dumplings, his favourite food.
Delicious
Until I’m full, I will keep eating.
Meaty
Pleasant taste in my mouth
Luke’s favourite food
I don’t mind them either
Nice for lunch
Gabriel wants some too!
Super-dooper scrumptious!!!