This week, Primary 4 started work on poetry.
We have been learning about special types of words called calligrams. They are words which look like what they mean.
We read a poem by Gina Douthwaite called ‘Circus of Shapes’ and we worked in groups to find examples of calligrams. We found letters that looked like jumping acrobats and others that looked like rings and a tightrope. Then, we tried to create our own for an ‘under the sea’ shape poem. We found this a little tricky, especially getting our letters to look like sea life! We are going to practise writing calligrams more next week. Look out to see how we improve!
Well done to Jessica McLean who is our star writer this week – Miss McLaughlin is going to challenge her to write some more interesting calligrams!
Challenge..
We found writing calligrams for sea life really tricky! Can you think of how we could make the word ‘starfish’ look like a starfish?
Until next week..
Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂
Hi P4
Well Done Jessica for being star writer!!:)
You all seem to be working very hard
Hi Primary 4,
I love the sound of your calligrams- I think I might have seen a few of you creating them. It would be great if I could see a few more- maybe two of you could come and show me your work.
Miss Anderson