Bring festive fun into your classroom with these 3 original Christmas poems.
Activities include: writing a Christmas acrostic poem, drawing a magical Christmas Eve scene through a window and decorating a crown and a placemat for the Christmas party.
This original Christmas play can be combined with well-known Christmas carols and songs (song suggestions are included).
Spike the Star tells Bella the Bauble, Holly the Christmas Wreath and Stitch the Stocking, why they should 'hang on' and decorate the house for Christmas.
This play includes the Nativity story.
Celebrate Harvest with this performance poem parade! Hosted by Dingle Dangle the Scarecrow, the harvest of cereals, vegetables and fruit are celebrated as they walk down the red carpet.
Well known Harvest songs can be performed at any point during the assembly to compliment this performance poem/parade.
Share these 5 original poems with your new class and inspire some fabulous 'back to school' poetry writing.
'Hello To My New Teacher' will inspire your new class to tell you lots of important things about themselves. A sheet is included for each child to draw a self portrait on for a welcoming classroom display.
Your class can use the writing frame and word bank to write an acrostic poem about the new school year inspired by the 'September' poem.
Use the 'Our Class Rules' poem to remind your class about the school rules and why they are needed or to inspire a new set of class rules.
'The Classroom Fairy' poem is a fun poem to remind children to keep their classroom tidy.
'Teacher's Lost Her Memory Stick' is a funny poem about something that could happen to even the most organised of teachers. This poem could inspire your class to generate adjectives and adverbs that describe how the teacher feels and behaves.
Bring winter into your classroom with this original poem about being 'warm and cosy' inside and having fun outside on a winter's day. An activity sheet is included to decorate a hat, scarf and mittens with warm colours and winter patterns.
Your class can explore the winter acrostic poem and write acrostic poems of their own using the winter word bank and writing frame.
These original poems and accompanying activities will bring Spring time into your English lesson. Use ‘adjective twigs’ to build a nest and write a Spring acrostic poem.
Bring Summer into your English lesson with these original poems for key stage 1. This includes an acrostic poem with an accompanying writing frame and word bank.
Use this original poem to get to know your new class!
Children can write their own version of the poem to tell their new teacher lots of important things about themselves.
Bunting is an original poem for ks1 which celebrates all things summery: holidays, summer fairs, the park...This includes a creative activity to design summer bunting.