Miss Benn's Poetry Adventure!

As you all know, I was on a course today with Michael Rosen. I have discovered lots of exciting new poems and poetry games for us to try out in St. George's Class.

I heard lots of interesting ideas from the other teachers on the course and they were very impressed with all the wonderful poems you have written this year.

Here's a picture with the man himself, Michael Rosen, holding your book of 'Gold Poems for King Midas':

 

Michael Rosen liked your poems so much that he even signed the book for you- and left you a special message!

 

 

I hope you all have a lovely sunny long weekend- and come back next week ready for lots of new poems and poetry games- I can't wait!

Our Roman Myths

 

Following our work about King Midas, we planned and wrote our own myths. We thought about why our character might be granted a wish, what might go wrong and how the problem might be solved. Here are some great examples of our myths:

Click on the pictures to make them bigger and easier to read.

 

 

By Aoife 

By Abel

 

By Anna

By Jacob

By Nathan

 

By Rosa

 

By Rhiannon

 

By Giulia 

By Joseph

 

By Ella F.

 

By Jack

 

By Alfie

 

By Jonathan

 

By Eliska

 

By Sonny

 

The Magic Box

 

 

 

Last week, we read one of Miss Benn's favourite poems, 'The Magic Box' by Kit Wright. We loved the images he uses and the way he plays with opposites. Some of the children really enjoyed the impossible things he puts in his box. After spending some time looking at this poem, we read some similar poems written by other children and shared what we liked most about them.

 

 

The Magic Box

I will put in the box,
The swish of a silk sari on a summer night,
Fire from the nostrils of a Chinese dragon,
The tip of a tongue touching a tooth.
 

I will put in the box,
A snowman with a rumbling belly,
A sip of the bluest water from Lake Lucerne,
A leaping spark from an electric fish.
 

I will put into the box,
Three violet wishes spoken in Gujarati,
The last joke of an ancient uncle,
And the first smile of a baby.
 

I will put into the box,
A fifth season and a black sun,
A cowboy on a broomstick
And a witch on a white horse.
 

My box is fashioned from ice and gold and steel,
With stars on the lid and secrets in the corners.
Its hinges are the toe joints of dinosaurs.
 

I shall surf in my box,
On the great high-rolling breakers of the wild Atlantic,
Then wash ashore on a yellow beach,
The colour of the sun.

 

by Kit Wright

 

 

To watch Kit Wright reading his poem, click the link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/kit-wright-the-magic-box-poem-only/8837.html

We thought about the things we would like to put in a Magic Box- and Miss Benn brought out a Magic Box for us to look at. Then, we wrote some poems of our own, here are some great examples:

By Rhiannon

 

 

 

By Aoife 

 By Michael

 

 

By Jacob 

By Abel

 

By Eliska 

By Sonny 

By Joseph 

By Jack

 

 

 Leave a comment and share your favourite line or verse from your poem!

 

Another message from King Midas

I need your advice, St. George's Class.

The Midas Touch!

This week we received a very special message from King Midas! When we came into our classroom on Wednesday, an enemy of King Midas had hidden all of these gold objects around our room!

Once we had worked in teams to find all of King Midas' gold for him, we collected lots of adjectives to describe them, then wrote some poems about the King's favourite thing: GOLD!

Here are some super examples:

By Michael

 

By Anna

 

By Caitlin

 

 

By Jacob

 

 

 By Antonio

 

 

 By Luke

By Aoife

 

 

 By Cassea

 

 

 By Ella W.

 

 

 

By Calum

 

 

We read a great version of 'King Midas and the Golden Touch' by Charlotte Craft. We enjoyed the story and loved the beautiful illustrations by K. Y. Craft.

 

Source: Charlotte Craft, KY.Craft, Harper Collins

 

Halfway through the story, we stopped and thought about what Midas might be thinking and feeling at this point in the story. We made a 'role on the wall' diagram for Midas- here is an example:

 

 

 

 

Then we drew pictures to show what we would do if we had the Midas touch!

 

 

We read the rest of the story, then made Fortunately-Unfortunately graphs, to show how Midas' luck changes throughout the story. When things are good for Midas, the line on the graph goes up and when things go wrong, the line goes down. Here is an example:

 

 

 

 

On Friday, we imagined that we had the Midas touch and worked in groups to make a 3D collage of items that Midas might touch. We also thought about mixing textures and using the paper folding and shaping skill that we learnt from Licy and Philippa. 

 

Here are the collages, before they were touched by Midas!

 

Here they are after the Midas touch! Our gold collages:

 

What do you think?