Year 2 celebrated National Poetry Day by joining in with some of the activities provided by the National Literacy Trust. We discovered that the theme this year was ‘Play’ and we had great fun exploring different ways to help us think of creative ideas.
Word Association – this was a game that we played with a partner. The first person said the word ‘play’ and the other person had to think of a word associated with play. We had some very funny connections! Here is one example of how the conversation went:-
Play, football, running, fast, cheetah, mammal, elephant, trunk, tree, leaves, orange, apple, banana, monkey, zoo, tiger, stripes, zebra, horse, field!
We also listened to a ‘Young Poet Laureate’ called Max, who shared his poem with us. He inspired us to write our own poems.
Comments from the children:-
“I loved the word association game, it was so much fun”.
“I liked Max’s poem. It inspired me to write my own”.
“I liked us doing the group poem. It gave me some ideas for my poem”.
Using the title of ‘I hear with my little ear’, we used our imaginations to create poems about different things we could hear. First, we wrote a class poem together, using ideas from everyone and then we created our own individual poems. The children were very proud of their hard work and will bring the poems home to share with you!
Here is the poem we wrote together:-
