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St Marys Primary School and Nursery Unit, Portaferry

National Poetry Day in P3

6th Oct 2022

Today we celebrated National Poetry Day by talking about poetry and what a poet is. This was new information for some children. We also read 3 different poems about the environment, inlcuding one about an eagle which we enjoyed, we had never thought of the sea as wrinkly:

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

By Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

and an acrostic poem about Autumn

All the leaves turn red and brown

Until they fall from the trees

To give the hedgehogs a cosy place to hibernate.

Usually we carve a pumpkin for Halloween

Many people light a bonfire or watch fireworks

Now is the season of autumn.

 

We then used the idea of an Autumn acrostic poem to write our own poems about nature. I think we have discovered some hidden poetic talents in P3!