For the last few weeks in English, Year 4 have been working on writing poetry.
We have learn about Haiku poems (a type of poetry which comes from Japan) and we began by learning about their structure. Haikus must have 3 lines with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the last line. Most Haikus are based on a theme such as the seasons, peace or nature. In our first lesson we counted the number of syllables in different sentences to used to doing this before writing our own Haiku poems and it was quite tricky!
We then discussed imagery and spent 2 lessons coming up with a range of expanded noun phrases, similes and metaphors for our Haikus. All of our Haikus will be based on the theme of love as this a major theme in Twelfth Night. There were lots of brilliant ideas and the children came up with some very powerful lines for their poems.
This week we spent time writing 3 different Haiku poems based on the characters and symbols in Twelfth Night. We ensured we followed the structure correctly for each line and edited our poems to include a variety of imagery techniques.
In our next lesson, we had a poetry recital where we discussed how important it is to read poetry aloud and listened to some examples. Everyone then practiced reading their Haikus with expression before performing it to our class.
After our recital, we spent time exploring different types of poetry from all around the world, and enjoyed reading classic, humorous and narrative poetry with our learning partners. We swapped books a few times, to read as many poems as we could!
You have worked so hard during the last few week Year 4! I am super proud of you.
What did you enjoy learning about during our English lessons on Haikus?
