{"id":7311,"date":"2020-06-03T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:11:36","slug":"language-skills-secondary-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/2020\/06\/03\/language-skills-secondary-18\/","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>funny<\/strong> or <strong>nonsense<\/strong> poetry.<\/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 something <strong>FUNNY<\/strong> or <strong>NONSENSE<\/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 <strong>funny<\/strong> or <strong>nonsense<\/strong> poem<strong>. <\/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 <strong>funny <\/strong>or <strong>nonsense<\/strong> poem (it doesn\u2019t have to rhyme).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy the following fun and nonsense poems (they may also give you some ideas for your own poems):<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Old Man Of Peru<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>There was an old man of Peru,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He woke in the night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a terrible fright,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And found it was perfectly true.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Anon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>No Harm Done<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>As I went out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The other day,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My head fell off<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And rolled away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But when I noticed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was gone,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I picked it up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And put it on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Anon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danger Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Jessica was playing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the escalator.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When suddenly she tripped<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And the escalator ate her!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>John Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 funny or nonsense poetry. 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 something FUNNY or NONSENSE. https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/z4mmn39\/articles\/ztdvw6f [&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-7311","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\/7311","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=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}