Poetry Week in Cardwell

Poetry kids
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Group poems are a lot of fun. Quite a few schools and groups had a go at these. Here is one from the group pictured.
What if?
What if cars
Jumped over people
Had mouths
Turned into frogs?
What if a rainbow
Turned into a dinosaur
And into the sky?
What if the dish ran away with the spoon
The cow [...]

word wall
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What might a poetry wall look like? Well here is a word wall with lots of seeds for poems. Notice also the lovely feet which are going to have some of these words forming shape poems.
This fabulous creation was completed by Mrs Tronconne with her year one class. They came up [...]

Can you believe it? Just a couple of weeks to go and National Poetry Week in Australia will be here.
From a ripple of poetry from a prep/one class group in the Tully State School to Saint Clares Parish School ripples (pictured here is a student from Saint Clares year 5 with a ripple poem exercise) to a [...]

Something Brown
I saw something brown
As wavy as the sea.
I saw something brown
As bumpy as could be.
I saw something brown
As spiky as a tree.
I saw something brown
Shaped like a croc.
I saw something brown
Shaped like a clock.
I looked
And I looked and I saw
That it was just a
Stick.
(c) By Caitlin
One of nine poems from Mission Beach State School  to [...]