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Nature
Diary: Keep a nature diary. Make notes about changes in flowers, trees,
gardens, parks, animals throughout the seasons. Write in detail.
At the end of each
season use your notes, details, thoughts to write four poems:
spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Empathy:
Imagine
you are an animal: squirrel, hedgehog, field mouse, dog, or cat.
Write a poem about a season from the animals point of view.
Taste:
Write
a season ‘ taste’ poem. Begin each
verse
with
a seasonal taste: ‘ Taste warm summer
in
the
sky/ Cool drinks, ice cream, sun so high…’
Sunshine:
Write
a poem entitled: A Plate Of Sunshine.
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A
Poem Is: Write a poem about what a poem is, eg:
A poem is
a rainbow in the sky.
A poem is
a teardrop in your eye.
A poem is
….etc
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Holidays
1: Look
at some holiday brochures and create a poem
out
of what you find/what you see in the
pictures and how you
feel
about them.
Holidays
2: Write
a poem about all the things that you did
on
your last – or any other memorable -
holiday.
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A
Poet-tree: Draw a tree (big A3). Write nature poems (or any subject) on
pre-cut leaf shaped paper and clothe your tree in your (or your
group’s) poems. Then you will have a
Poet Tree.
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Mother’s
Day: Write
a poem about your mother - list all
the
things that make her special. … This
can be done for Dads, Grans, Grandpas, and Aunties etc, too.
It’s
All Relative:
List the names of four relatives and
write
a verse describing each of them. Put together
in
one poem.
New
Friend: Choose
someone you don’t normally talk to.
Talk
to them and write down interesting details about
what
he/she says and what he/she is like. Now take
these
details and write a poem called ‘My New Friend’.
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Proverbs/Sayings:
For example…
Red
sky at night shepherd’s delight
Red
sky in the morning shepherd’s warning.
Take a
well-known proverb or saying and use it in a poem of your own to bring
out what you feel the proverb or saying means.
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Yuk: Write a poem about 6 things that
you
are afraid of/ you don’t like/that annoy
you.
Yum:
Write
a recipe-poem containing ten things you would
cook
for an enemy/for a friend. Be creative …
a dash of happiness, a spoonful of fun…etc
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Haunted:
Write a poem called :The Haunted Bicycle.
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Up
and Down Poems:
Like an acrostic but the letters can
move
within the lines eg:
HOMEWORK
Horrible
brain aching
COmpletely
wasting home time
Makes
my hands cry and
ME
miss too much television
When
I want to enjoy my soaps or
GO
out with my mates
Really
why do I have to do it
Yes
I thinK
it should be given detention
Alphabet
poems: Write
a 28-line poem about the A to Z
of
something; Countries, food, school, TV, music, books, sport,
animals, toys etc.
Don’t
Think Just Do: Write
down the first 10 words that come into your head.
Don’t think about them, simply
quickly
write them down. Now create a poem. Put your
first
word somewhere in the first line of your poem.
Put
your second word somewhere in the second line
of
your poem. Put the third word somewhere in the third
line…
and so on until you have a ten-line poem that
makes
some sort of sense. Give it a title and illustrate.
Wordy
Rappinghood: Use
all of these words in a poem: Crash, crumpled paper, straw,
bricks, sparkle, stars,
broken
bridge, boom, and discovery.
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Title:
Write a poem called: Elephants Are Funny Birds.
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If
I Had The Power: Write
a poem beginning each verse with:
If I had the power to change things I would…
Never-Never
Land
: Write
a poem out of 20 things that
you
will never do.
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Joke
Poems: Take some of your favourite jokes and
make
them into a poem eg:
A
serial killer: Wheetabix with a knife -
Make
a meal out of it - it’ll take your life…
Etc
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Headline
Poems: Collect
ten to fifteen newspaper
headlines.
Arrange them in any order that makes some
sort
of sense. Write them down. Now add linking
words,
sentences, and punctuation to create a poem,
which
has something to say. Give your headline poem
a
title. Write out neatly and illustrate.
Your
Collection: Put
together a collection of 3 poems
that
you have particularly enjoyed, then write an
introduction
to the poems telling the reader: Why you
chose
the poems/ What to look out for in the
way
the
poems are written/ What they are about/ What effect they had on
you/ Anything else that you feel you would
like
to say about them.
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