This week the Year Twos have managed to squeeze in poetry appreciation and investigation into quite a few different settings! A highlight was our wellbeing session on today, where students worked in small groups to read and interpret a piece of poetry, and create a ‘freeze frame’ photograph with the iPads to document and share their understanding of the poem. A focus of this workshop was considering what we need to remember when we’re working as part of a group, such as taking turns and listening to others.
Below are the poems that students were introduced to and read (and which we will continue to examine over the next week), and some examples of freeze frames that the students made.
On Wednesday, students attended a vocabulary building workshop where we talked about subjects and topics that we were interested in writing poetry about, and worked in groups to brainstorm descriptive language related to our interest topics that would help us when creating poems by giving us a bank of words to select from. Students were then given the challenge of writing a haiku poem, using a sheet of brainstormed words from another group, as a way to practise selecting and arranging language within the framework of a set number of syllables per line (5,7,5).
The Phoenix
Coloured red beauty
The creature swoops now
Lives in the sky
(topic and brainstorm by Marly and Ben, haiku by Rafferty, Rudi, and Jeannie)
Video Games
Video games keep
You inside on a nice day
You should read a book
(topic and brainstorm by Anthony and Fox, haiku by Marly and Ben)
Skateboarding
Put on your helmet
Come to the skate park today!
Show me your skills now!
(topic and brainstorm by Finn and Hugo P, haiku by Matilda HG and Marla)
Christmas
Bright decorations
Christmas is enjoyable
Santa always comes
(topic and brainstorm by Rosa and Matilda A, haiku by Luke and Jude)
Change
Growing up is hard
Meeting new friends can be fun
Move out of your house!
(topic and brainstorm by Sylvie and Maia R, haiku by Alexandra and Saskia)
This afternoon, students had the opportunity to practise writing haiku poems, as well as acrostic poems, using pieces of nature that they had found outside as inspiration. Independently, created poems about leaves, sticks, rocks – even orange peels and forgotten lunchboxes!
