Expressing Ourselves Through Poerty

We have been exploring poetry in K2. We first read the poems ‘Popcorn’ and ‘My Teeth’ written by Kindergarteners Sydney Cook and Kevin Plautz.

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We noticed that Poetry is a way to describe thoughts and feelings. We noticed how space is used in poetry, that words don’t have to rhyme and that we can use our senses to create our own poetry. 

We then used the lumpy ball to create our first K2 poem ‘Balls‘.

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Then we created our own poems. These are displayed in the hallway! 

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The Feelings Corner

We have been talking about how we deal with our feelings and emotions in K2. We first listened to the story ‘The Recess Queen by Alexis O’neill.

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and nobody said any different.
Nobody swung until Mean Jean swung.
Nobody kicked until Mean Jean kicked.
Nobody bounced until Mean Jean bounced.
If kids ever crossed her, she’d push ’em and smoosh ’em
lollapaloosh ’em, hammer ’em, slammer ’em
kitz and kajammer ’em.
Until a new kid came to school!
With her irrepressible spirit, the new girl dethrones the reigning recess bully by becoming her friend in this infectious playground romp.

Screen Shot 2015-11-18 at 18.00.48We then made a poster on what it means to be ‘Respectful in the Playground‘. Students brainstormed ideas and discussed issues they had during recess. We also decided that we needed a quiet place in the classroom where students can go and have a little time to themselves. This is a space where students can channel their feelings and energy to encourage positive behaviour. Students had to decide what they wanted to call the area. After some discussions and a vote we decided to call it ‘The Feelings Corner‘. This corner has a ‘Feelings Box‘ with many items that the students can use to share, communicate or deal with feelings.

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Here are some students exploring the new space!

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Emily Gravett

612qbE+WVFLThe students have been very excited about our visiting author Emily Gravett. In preparation for her visit the students listened her story Again!

After listening to the story the students watched the video ‘How to draw a dragon’. They then created their own dragons!

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cvr9781416987031_9781416987031_hrThe students also listened to the story Dogs by Emily Gravett. They talked about and drew the different kids of dogs they love.

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We Love Dogs!

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We read yet another Emily Gravett story ‘Blue Chameleon’. The students enjoyed the illustrations and discussed what it means to feel lonely.

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They created their own chameleons and decorated them with colours and patterns.

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Our Chameleons!

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The New Webs

IMG_8616‘The New Webs’ by Judy Ling has been our story for the week. The text focuses on shapes and descriptive words.

IMG_8617Here is a spider who makes an oval web for her babies.

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Here is the hairy spider and her web that is shaped like a square.

We love the scary spider and her little scary babies!!

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