The Easter Hat Parade
2K has been busy
2K has had fun
making Easter bonnets
with Dad and with Mum.
We’ve spent many hours
cutting out flowers,
using cardboard and glue
and crepe paper too.
Some hats are like bunnies
with ears floppy and funny,
Others have eggs and chicks,
with colours all sunny.
So put on your hats,
tie up the bow.
Your magnificent creations
make a marvellous show.
Vanessa Proctor
Bilby Nose
The Bilby’s cute-long
bunny ears
remind us Easter’s
almost here.
These experts
burrow in the ground
where grubs and roots
for food are found.
Their dainty
pinkly pointy snouts
are perfect probes
to sniff things out.
With squeaky snuffles
snorts and grunts,
they’d help us with those
Choc-Egg hunts!
by Celia Berrell
Please have a look and read of this article.
A book with pages of words interlaced.
I read to you at bedtime, watch you drift to sleep.
I picture each scene how I like and wonder what you see.
A pause: too long, so quiet…
I nod – lost.
I have borrowed the sailing ship from this manuscript of adventure.
Where am I? Where are you?
I look for you and there you are – a loyal companion.
We travel together, though our dreams differ: supportive.
In the morning we return safe and sound with new-fangled ideas for life that we have borrowed from a book.
By Louise McCarthy
Words are weird
My shoe has a tongue
but can’t talk.
All it can do is walk.
My nose has a bridge
you can’t cross.
Which leaves me at a loss.
My eyes have pupils
you can’t teach.
What’s the purpose of each?
My ears have two drums
you can’t play.
What kind of drums are they?
What weird things words are —
they have too
many meanings by far!
James Aitchison
Grass Skirt
Kilt clan patterns
Mother’s hands twisting string for homemade
video to keep tradition strong
Once made from plants now plastic too
Scratching identity from legs to ankles
Calling out for head dress and for beads
Bare feet beating dance on earth
Sway and swish
Past, present and future steps
Given by my mother to say
You are grown
By June Perkins
Good Morning,
Thankyou for your contributions in the last week.
Prompt #6 is Word Association poetry and Easter but please send in any other poems as well.
Heads up for those needing a bit more time writing: Our next Prompt after Easter will be Haiku.
Teacher Notes are in today instead of Thursday to give teachers ideas at the start of this week.
Please Email poems to:
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Teacher Notes: Jeanie Axton
Easter is another opportunity to create an egg shape poem and write in describing words associated with Easter.
1. Here is a site online with Easter poems and songs you may like to use.
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/poetry/index.htm
2. Another engaging idea would be to show the students the trailer to the recently released movie “Peter Rabbit”. I think this will be a very popular Easter or April school holidays outing for families.
Don’t forget to mention Beatrix Potter the original famous author of the Peter Rabbit series of books.
3. And one more idea an oldie but a goodie. Dye real eggs (check re egg allergies first) as a classroom activity. Remembering through all these activities to reinforce the describing words for Easter that can be used in poems the children write.
Here is a chart of natural dyes to use with real eggs.
And Todays quote:
Cheers and Happy Easter
Jeanie
Jan Turner-Jones 01/08/43 – 31/05/14 was an Australian Author and Poet, who lived in Brisbane and was a member of the Rockhampton Writers’ Club. She was, at various times, a bank clerk, photographer, actor, university student and social worker. She worked with Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccle) (q.v.) on Stradbroke Island whilst a student at the University of Queensland.
Jan was published in Australia and USA.
In her later years, Jan was a prolific creator of songs, plays and children’s literature.
Teacher Notes: By Jeanie Axton
This time of the year is a good opportunity to construct sporty shape poems. In SA we have our first AFL round this weekend and with my limited knowledge of rugby it looks like it’s started in NSW and Queensland.
Both the AFL and NRL offer many online resources for teachers.
Find below a link to the AFL Teaching and Learning Resources and a screen shot with suggestions for English. Also a link and screen shot to a NRL site re a Well Being unit for schools.
Dont forget to give girls who play footy and rugby a plug. Women’s football in the AFL is in its second season.
AFL link ( Yes number 5 is a poetry idea )
http://www.aflcommunityclub.com.au/index.php?id=1859
NRL link
https://www.teachstarter.com/teaching-resource/nrl-wellbeing-unit/
Australian Children’s Poetry Website 