Posted on December 4th, 2007 by misskprimary
I’m planning to use ‘winter’ as the theme for my poetry unit, which I’ve deliberately left until the last week of term, before Christmas!
These websites have poems on the theme of winter. I haven’t had a close look at them yet to check how useful they will be:
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems7.html
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/winter/poems-rhymes/index.html
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/winter/winter_quotes_and_poems.htm
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/winter/index.html
http://www.show.me.uk/site/show/STO957.html
http://www.whiteheadm.co.uk/html/winter_picnic_lesson_plan.htm
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Posted on October 27th, 2007 by misskprimary
Coloured presents sparkle dreamily,
Bright stockings shimmer enticingly,
Beautiful baubles hang brightly,
Tinselled trees gleam peacefully.
http://www.ictopus.org.uk/index.php?sec=1&sub=3
This poem was very quickly written using this online poem maker. You can create a wordlist and it automatically generates poems, following the format you specify. I’m planning to cover one of the poetry units with my Year 6 class in [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2007 by misskprimary
Here’s the planning and resources I used when I taught The Highwayman to my Year 5 class. I’ve added them as a (quite large) zip file because there are 13 files, including planning, Smart Notebook files, worksheets, the text of the poem and a short list of websites. I also used a few resources from [...]
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