Day 3 Ahipara

Day 3 Ahipara School

Today we began the lesson by looking at one of Apirana’ poems…

Adroit songster
Natty dresser
Attired in tuxedo
With immaculate cravat
I am a Tui

The students used the dictionary to find unfamiliar words

This was a great activity to teach children how to write a poem the way we want it read. Apirana wrote it on one line and the students had to break it in lines-writing it how they read it.

For the next part of the session we went to the beach.
The children sat on the beach and closed their eyes and then described what they heard.
We then explored the beach and described what we saw. The children then collected items from the beach which could help with their poem.
Apirana got the students to really focus on their senses and the colours of objects.

We then head back to school to have a go at writing 1-2 poems about our trip to the beach. The students had to use what they…

Saw
Heard
Felt
Touched
Smelt
Could taste.

This is what one student wrote…

A seabird
Dives
Searches
Captures
Gobbles
In the whirling whitewash



Lonely
It flutters in the breeze
It drifts
Hovering
It swoops in an arch
Lonely


The students loved getting out onto the beach. I noticed that their poetry was really enhanced through exploring their senses and experiencing what they were writing about.
Looking forward to seeing the final pieces of poetry come together.

Jody Curran