In p5 we are doing reading challenges. The bronze award is reading 3 or more Roald Dahl books like Charlie and the Chocolate factory, The Enormous crocodile, Matilda, Boy going solo, Danny the champion of the world, The twits, James and the Giant Peach, Giraffe, Pelly and me, Esio Trot etc. The silver award is reading books that John Muir would have been interested in e.g about the environment, travel, inventions etc. The third award is the olympic gold award which will be have an olympic theme.

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By Andrew and Matthew P5A.

Today in our reading setting, the Primary 5 poetry group have been reading and exploring Cinquain poems. Just like Haiku, Cinquain is a form of poetry that has a fixed number of syllables. A Cinquain poem has 5 lines:

The first line must have 2 syllables,

the second line must have 4 syllables,

the third line has 6 lines,

the fourth line has 8 syllables

and the final line finishes with 2 syllables.

Like a Haiku poem, your poem should not normally rhyme.

Here is a poem we wrote together in class:

Weekend

No school today

Play football in the park on Sunday

You can go swimming with your friends

It’s fun!

Please have a look at some of the Cinquain P5 have written in the comments. They have chosen to write a poem exploring the themes of friendship, winter, anti-bullying, the seashore or Y Dance.

As part of the Reading Focus this term, some of Primary 5 have been reading and exploring different forms of poetry. Today, we have been learning all about Haiku, a Japanese form of poetry that has only 3 lines and 17 syllables in the format 5-7-5. The first line must have 5 syllables, the second line must have 7 syllables and the final line has 5 syllables. A Haiku poem does not normally rhyme but expresses a feeling or fleeting moment in time.

Here is one by Miss Smith entitled ‘Homework’:

Twenty children write

words, ideas, one line more,

there, done! Time to play!

Please have a look at some of the Haiku P5 have written in the comments.

In Reading today Primary 5 have been learning about Alliteration poems and how to write them. Here is one they wrote as a class, each pair shared a line

Crying crowds coming from California

Singers singing all about

Pushy parents dashing for their children

People pushing, people screaming

Famous friends sing for them

Rock and Rolling all around

People coming coolly then crying

Cheering and chewing happily

Scream and shout as he came out

Obama speaks his speech for the USA

People yelling, people yapping

for President Obama

Primary 5 have been learning about different styles of poetry. They have been trying their skills at kennings. Here are their best lines. Can you guess what they are describing? They will be sharing other poems here as well.

Night shiner

Guide giver

Sun seer

Bright burner

Sky lighter

Space frightener

Never shiverer

Small sparkler

Earth creator

Yellow startler

Space flyer

World forgiver

Day sleeper

Sun competer

Shape maker

Pattern make

Dust exploder