Today we celebrated National Poetry Day by talking about poetry and what a poet is. This was new information for some children. We also read 3 different poems about the environment, inlcuding one about an eagle which we enjoyed, we had never thought of the sea as wrinkly:
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
By Lord Alfred Tennyson
and an acrostic poem about Autumn
All the leaves turn red and brown
Until they fall from the trees
To give the hedgehogs a cosy place to hibernate.
Usually we carve a pumpkin for Halloween
Many people light a bonfire or watch fireworks
Now is the season of autumn.
We then used the idea of an Autumn acrostic poem to write our own poems about nature. I think we have discovered some hidden poetic talents in P3!
