Poetry and Joy

In Writing we have begun to write poetry.

To get started we went on a Joy Hunt to get some inspiration to write similes about being joyous.

We explored the playground find out to what joy looked and sounded like.

We then found the freshly cut grass on the field and explored to find out what joy felt and smelt like.

Our poems turned out rich with describing words and personal voice - the perfect poem 

(even though they don't rhyme.)

Look out on the next blog for our finished poems or pop in to the classroom to have a read.

Exciting Sentences - Interesting Adjectives, Adverbs and Connectives

In writing, we've been learning to make our sentences really exciting for the reader.  

The kids in room ten had to change short simple sentences into amazingly descriptive and exciting sentences.

Here's what we started with:

Maui sat fishing.  The sun sped across the sky.

And here's a few examples of our exciting sentences.

Sadly, Magical Maui sat fishing, meanwhile the lavery sun raced across the clear sky.  By Thomas D

Powerful angry Maui impatiently sat fishing.  The flaming, boiling, hot sun quickly raced across the clear, blue sky.  By Emma

Maui angrily sat fishing, with his angry brothers, Maui did not have a lot of fish.  He looked up at the clear, blue sky.  He saw the fiery sun quickly race across.  By Luke