{"id":7313,"date":"2020-06-04T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:13:08","slug":"language-skills-secondary-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/2020\/06\/04\/language-skills-secondary-19\/","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 (final one this week) is <strong>animals<\/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 animal e.g. <strong>ELEPHANT<\/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> animal. <\/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> animal<\/strong> (it doesn\u2019t have to rhyme).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy the following poems about animals (they may also give you some ideas for your own poems):<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIGER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m a tiger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Striped with fur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t come near<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or I might Grrr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t I come near<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or I might growl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t come near<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or I might<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BITE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Ann Hoberman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>KITTY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Look at pretty little Kitty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gnawing on a bone!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How I wish she\u2019d eat some fish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And leave my leg alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Doug MacLeod<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE TICKLE RHYME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWho\u2019s that tickling my back?\u201d said the wall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMe,\u201d said a small<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caterpillar. \u201cI\u2019m learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To crawl.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ian Serraillier<\/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 (final one this week) is animals. 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 animal e.g. [&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-7313","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\/7313","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=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}