As something a little special we looked at one of Mr Everden’s favourite poems. It is written by Roger McGough, and it is called The Sound Collector. We were concentrating on using fantastic onomatopoeia and trying to rhyme. If you’ve ever tried to make a good rhyming poem you will know how hard this can be! Amos class worked really hard on this, and even though they found it tricky at first some of the final results we FANTASTIC!!!
One peom which really stood out to Mr Everden was Christopher’s poem. Thanks to Tam-Ann for helping him write it up on the computer.
What do you think of it? He did this all on his own in quite a short amount of time, and he’s only nine!
Catman, the Sound Collector
A stranger called this morning
Dressed all in black and grey
Put every sound into a bag
And carried them away.
The whooshing of the water,
the ticking of the clock.
The beeping of the cars,
and the clicking of the lock.
the howling of the wolf,
the chugging of the train.
All of these sounds you can hear
as you cross the lane.
The turning of the gears,
the sploshing of the shark.
The purring of the cat
as the children are sleeping after the dark.
He took them all away without a single sound,
where did they go? Who knows,
but they are nowhere to be found!
shhhhhhhh
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