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Poetry with Winter/Christmas or other theme in primary school

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  • 08-11-2011 12:25am
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    Sparky100
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    I am a primary school teacher and I am looking for a nice poem to do with my 4th class (9 and 10 year olds) that might relate to winter/christmas or an other theme with a lot of scope.

    I always loved as a child, 'Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening' and I have always loved teaching it with the children. I often start with a photo of an old man and his horse at the edge of a forest and ask them 'Where they think he is going? Who he is? etc
    Then we delve in to the poem itself and it's meaning, feelings, time of year, etc

    It is really a poem with a lot of scope and so I am looking for some other poetry that you might think would appeal to this age group and open their eyes in wonder, ask questions, and picture things in their mind like it did in mine all those years ago...

    I would really appreciate any ideas you may have, thanks


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    #2
    E.T.
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    This school (not mine!) have very kindly put some winter poems up on their site:

    http://scoileoin.pbworks.com/w/page/11253330/Winter%20Poems

    'Death of a Snowman' looks like it would appeal to 4th class. The language used in 'Something Told the Wild Geese' is really beautiful. I've done 'Sir Winter' before with 1st class, some of them weren't able for understanding it but the ones that did really enjoyed it.


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