junior guests present their work, my kids' poems from a workshop Options

[Guest_Toumai_*]

Hi, everyone

My kids went to a poetry workshop recently and had a fabulous time, hearing poetry, writing their own and making huge pictures (on the back of an old roll of wallpaper) to illustrate one. The event was to raise money for 'Children of Chernobyl'. They came home and asked if their work could be put on the web (since mum spends so much time there) ...


Tornado, by Jason (age 8): a shape poem


  Tornados can go at
        about 1200 miles
                per hour. They
                      surround
                       hurricanes
                      or tidal
                    waves.
              Tornados
            a r e
             swirling
               vortices
                 of wind.
                         They
                             can
                                suck
                                 u p
                               things
                           up to
                         as big
                      as a
                  church.
                     They
                       are very
                               deva-
                                     stating
                                          and can
                                          destroy
                                    whole
                                 forests
                           at a time.





My Guinea Pigs  
by Elizabeth (age 6): a prose poem

Our guinea pigs squeak when they are hungry.
When dad squeaks he frightens them.
They eat hay, salad, apple, carrot, grass, dandelion and guinea pig food.

[Guest_Toumai_*]

From Jason (typed by Mum):


Dear James,

Thank you for the nice things you say. My poem is on green A4 paper so I can put it up. I wrote vorteXES and Mum explained vortiCES.  :)


Dear Nina,

Thank you for your compliments. We'll look for Malorie Blackman's story poem at the Library tomorrow.  


Dear Don,

Thank you for your comments. I enjoyed writing this and making the shape.  


Dear Ron

My sister is 6. She likes poetry, too. Sometimes we make rhymes, but Mum gets cross if they are rude.  :p


Dear Cleo,

THANK YOU


Jason