During school grounds week, we went to the school field to record what we could see, hear, touch and smell. Back in the classroom we used our poetry skills to expand the imagery. We then taped different pieces of coloured paper to our tables and used charcoal and graphite sticks to create images suitable for our poems. After that we used handwriting sessions to write them out neatly before finally copying them onto accetate so they could be glued over the images.
To combine our study of poetry with our Vye computers, we wrote our own poems based upon ‘Using my senses’. The children had to describe sights, sounds, smells etc that they really liked. Next, we searched and copied images from the internet to illustrate the images we created in our poems. We then used Movie Maker to make the images appear in time with our words. Finally, we saved that version of our work and then added extra sounds.
Here are the first batch.
We have been studying poetry these last two weeks, looking at how to create imagery and to use sound to enhance our ideas. The class worked in groups to perform three poems: Last Night I Saw the City Breathing, Being Told Off and The Magic Box. The performances were all very different and we enjoyed doing it a lot.
Perhaps I should allow the children to rehearse a little more then make actual videos of the performances.
The Magic Box is a poem by Kit Wright that my class has recently studied. In the poem, Kit describes some of the wonderful things that she would put in her box, such as:
The first smile of a baby,
a snowman with a rumbling belly,
the tip of a tongue touching a tooth.
What would YOU put in the box?
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