THE POETRY DAY
Hi, Today I’m going to write a post about what we did during the middle group class on Monday. The topic of the class was poetry and the different ways to take advantage of it.
The class can be divided in different parts: In the first part, the teacher gave us some tables that we had to use in groups of three people. To complete the task, we had to open a PowerPoint file, where there was a picture of a map, and touch the different parts of a it which contained a link to a YouTube video. In the videos we heard some teachers speaking about how important are poetry and the diverse ways to approach it.
During the second part of the class, the teacher told us to form new groups of three people as well. Then, we did an activity similar to “the experts group” in which each group was given two websites that were highly linked with poetry. After that, we analyzed them and by the time we had finished we exchange our group partners and each of the new members of each group had to explain their website to the rest. We could use the tablets for this activity.
Finally for the last part of the lesson, we formed new groups of four people and the teacher gave us photocopies of some poetries. Each group had to choose one and then we had to put in practice our storytelling skills to develop choreographies for the poetry, so that children could use it and find poetry motivating and easy to follow. One we had everything planned we were recorded in video while we showed our poetry and its choreography.
In conclusion, this class was a very useful one; it is so because it was very complete. Thanks to it, we first learnt about poetry and how to use it in class; then some resources as websites were provided so that we can find some help, and finally we had the chance to practice what we had learnt during the lesson.
Moreover, the last thing I have to say is that although I like it so much due to the motivational part, I have to say that I would like to know other examples of activities that can be done with poetry at schools.
I hope this message proves interesting for those who like poetry!
Hi Jaime. First of all I would like to tell you that I also liked this activity because it has been a good example to show to our future that poetry it´s something that everybody could do if they use the appropriate words.
In my opinion all depends of the way we encourage our students to do poetry and how we presented to them because if we show it as an interesting thing that for example we could do to write a poem to our mum on “Mums day”, probably the will love this activity because they were seeing that them could do poetry and there is no reason to learn it as we did by memorising. Another activity could by the one we did in class of representing the poem with gestures, or even sing it if we are brave.
In relation to this activities we could do others more for example there are some poems that are with questions and answer we could divide the class in to two groups and one did the questions and the other groups the answers or even saying a paragraph each group.
Here you have a very good resource; it is a webpage in which there are lots of poems for children:
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/poems.html
I think this website is a very good tool because there are poems for different levels.
I hope I help you think out for more activities to do in class moreover you could think on many others.