News from the 3/4 Team...
Exploring Poetry
Throughout Term 3, students in Team 3/4 have been exploring all things poetry! They have read, analysed and written different poetry forms, as well as learnt different ways to organise poetry and language features to engage the audience.
Students learnt that poetry is a form of storytelling and that poets use a range of methods to organise their writing; stanzas, line breaks, rhythm and rhyme patterns, repetition, syllabification, punctuation and pauses.
Our budding poets also explored different poetic devices commonly used to enhance writing and connect with the audience, including; Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Spoonerisms, Neologisms, Puns, Metaphor, Simile, Personification and Imagery
Bio poems
A Bio poem describes a person, is 10 lines long and with the following structure.
Line 1: First name.
Line 2: Three or four adjectives that describe the person.
Line 3: Important relationship (daughter of…, son of …, etc.).
Line 4: Two or three things, people, or ideas that the person loves.
Line 5: Three feelings the person experiences.
Line 6: Three fears the person experiences.
Line 7: Accomplishments or joys (who composes…, who plays…, etc.).
Line 8: Two or three things the person wants to see happen or wants to experience.
Line 9: Their home country.
Line 10: Last name.
Cinquain
Five lines long:
Line 1: one noun
Line 2: two adjectives
Line 3: three verbs (-ing words)
Line 4: four feelings words, or feelings phrase with 4 words
Line 5: another word for the noun in line 1
Haiku
Three lines long:
5 syllables on the first line
7 syllables on the second line,
5 syllables on the third line.
Students considered how to use the 6 +1 Writing Trait of Voice in their writing through establishing a personal Writing goal. This focused on connecting with the audience, creating mood and emotion, and using fitting language for the purpose of the poetry piece.
Through reading and analysing different poetry forms, students have also been working on their personal Reading goal of Expand Vocabulary. Students used Word Jars to record new vocabulary which they came across in their reading. This has assisted them to build and trial new vocabulary into their poetry pieces.
End of Term 3 Literacy Celebration Event
As an end of Term 3 celebration, students were treated to a live viewing of the Book Launch of The 169 Storey Treehouse, written by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton. This event was promoted by the State Library of Victoria and Andy Griffiths was the guest presenter.
It was very exciting to see Gavin in 3AT's ideas for a new storey level presented for all the world to see!
Thanks to Mrs Thwaites for organising this for us.
The Year 3/4 Team
Cameron Batt, Ray Owens, Sarah Jacobs, Lisa Trevorrow, Lyndsey Thwaites, Sarah Amiconi, Jane Xie and Philip Wickham