{"id":7309,"date":"2020-06-02T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/?p=7309"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:10:34","slug":"language-skills-secondary-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/2020\/06\/02\/language-skills-secondary-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Skills (Secondary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning everyone,<\/p>\n<p>This week we are exploring poetry!<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s topic is <strong>food<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Activities to choose from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read and or listen to some poems. <a href=\"https:\/\/childrens.poetryarchive.org\/explore\/?key=&amp;type=&amp;poet=&amp;theme=127&amp;form=&amp;age=\">https:\/\/childrens.poetryarchive.org\/explore\/?key=&amp;type=&amp;poet=&amp;theme=127&amp;form=&amp;age=<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read and or listen to some poems and think about what they mean. <a href=\"https:\/\/childrens.poetryarchive.org\/explore\/?key=&amp;type=&amp;poet=&amp;theme=127&amp;form=&amp;age=\">https:\/\/childrens.poetryarchive.org\/explore\/?key=&amp;type=&amp;poet=&amp;theme=127&amp;form=&amp;age=<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Research <strong>acrostic<\/strong> poems and create your own about a particular food e.g. <strong>STRAWBERRIES<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/z4mmn39\/articles\/ztdvw6f\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/z4mmn39\/articles\/ztdvw6f<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Research <strong>haiku<\/strong> poems and create your own about a particular<strong> food. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngwriters.co.uk\/info\/other\/poetry-types\/haiku-poem\">https:\/\/www.youngwriters.co.uk\/info\/other\/poetry-types\/haiku-poem<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Create a poem about a particular<strong> food<\/strong> (it doesn\u2019t have to rhyme).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy the following poems about food (they may also give you some ideas for your own poems):<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pancake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Mix a pancake,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stir a pancake,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop it in the pan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fry the pancake,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Toss the pancake,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch it you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Christina Rossetti<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sounds Good!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sausage sizzles,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>crispbreads crack;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>hot dogs hiss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and flapjacks snap!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bacon boils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and fritters fry;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>apples squelch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>in apple pie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baked beans bubble,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>gravy grumbles;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>popcorn pops,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and stomach rumbles \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m Hungry!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Judith Nicholls<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>I eat my peas with honey,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve done it all my life,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They do taste kind of funny,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But it keeps them on the knife.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Anon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>Laura Leathem (Language and Communication Teacher)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning everyone, This week we are exploring poetry! Today\u2019s topic is food. Activities to choose from: Read and or listen to some poems. https:\/\/childrens.poetryarchive.org\/explore\/?key=&amp;type=&amp;poet=&amp;theme=127&amp;form=&amp;age= Read and or listen to some poems and think about what they mean. https:\/\/childrens.poetryarchive.org\/explore\/?key=&amp;type=&amp;poet=&amp;theme=127&amp;form=&amp;age= Research acrostic poems and create your own about a particular food e.g. STRAWBERRIES. https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/z4mmn39\/articles\/ztdvw6f Research haiku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122987],"class_list":["post-7309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-language-skills-secondary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7327,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions\/7327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}