Kids Corner

The Kids Corner section of this fortnight’s newsletter features some poems which have been written by some of our wonderful Year 2 and 3 learners. I trust you enjoy them as much as I have! 

Thunder Strikes (by Sineysha)

Thunder is here.

It’s sending 1,000 bolts of lightening to the ground per second.

Boom! Zap! Boom! Zap!

Oh no! Now Thunder’s good friend Fire is here.

Burning everything in its path.

Peace is gone as havoc is restored!

The Grass (by Chloe)

The grass is waving and swaying to its friends.

The sun is smiling to everyone.

The wind shakes the grass so the rain is now being blown towards the grass and now the grass is wet.

But the sun saves the day as she reaches out and helps create a rainbow.

Thunder Bolts! (By Hasan)

Thunder Bolts strike on a dark stormy night

The thunder bolt struck electricity causing destruction and metal redirecting

Then everyone said, “Boom, zoom and doom!”

Ballad Poems (by Riddota)

There lived a beautiful princess names Theresa. 

She wanted a pet dog named, Lisa.

“Woof, woof,” there is a pet dog. 

Wait, where did it go?

We looked everywhere!I heard panting in the closet, and she was there!

The Year 2 students have been learning about Diamante poems and below is an email from Ms. Willams and some of the poems the children in 2B have written:

Hello Mr Catalano, 

Recently we have been learning about different types of poetry. Earlier in the term we learned about rhyming couplets and triplets to get our brains in the zone. But over the last two weeks we have explored the structure and the types of words we need to use in order to make interesting diamantes and cinquains. Diamantes and Cinquains have a specific number of each word type in a line.

Here are the examples we used to help us:

Diamantes are very interesting because we can use them to compare and contrast different things. We linked our poems to our Inquiry unit by comparing a man-made landmark and a natural landmark. 

We have attached some examples from our class to this email for you to put into the next newsletter 

We hope you enjoy reading them! 

From 2B