poetry club help?

Question

my and my mates age 13 are setting up a poetry club at the local primary school for ages 4 and 5 any ideas

i mean ages 8 to 10

Answer 1

By the time a child reaches age 8 to 10, hopefully they have endured all the rhyming they can relate back.

"Games" probably will gain more interest than anything deep or seriously profound, although you can hope for a prodigy.

I'll suggest this to add to your list, or all you wish to promote and achieve. Certainly it too can be a "game"

"Poetry Tag" Suggest a line, or even a single word, and allow each student to add to that, eventually coming up with a "Poem" Silly? Perhaps? Fun? Hopefully, Educational? We can assume so.

Word play,,,even if not poetic?

"OK kids, here is todays classroom assingment."

(explain the process then offer a subject, or even an opening line they can build on) IE:

"Ok kids, the subject is "Frogs"

Johnny: "I heard a frog."

Wendy: "In my garage."

Sally: "I shrieked..."EEEK""

Billy: "I didn't wanna call my dad, and sound like Geek."

William: "I kinda like frogs, so slippery and slimey."

Betsy: "My mom made me wash up, cuz they're oh so Grimey."

Just my two cents.

Steven Wolf

BTW, this may sound blatanly gender specific OR even gender offensive,,, and usual, but it wasn't meant to be more than an example

Answer 2

What sort of thing fo you need help with?

Perhaps a game with rhyming words? - Have a match the pairs setions

Nursery Rhymes?

Good luck with teaching poetry to a 4-5 age group

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Okay, for ages 8 to 10 i'd suggest doing simple tasks like thinking of words to describe things e.g. Tree; Tall, green, big etc.

Then give them tasks and tell them to fill the blanks, either as a whole group or indivually.
i.e. The Tree is _____
The flower is _____


Then as the lessons get on get them to do similar tasks with rhyming after telling them a few simple poems.

Thigns like:
Dogs are _____
Cats are _____
Rabbits are _____
Ducks are _____

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Cats are Hairy
Dogs are Scruffy
Rabbits are Cute
Ducks are Fluffy

Answer 3

Roger McGough writes great children's poetry. You should check your local library for some of his books. And what about Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes? Young kids would love that.
A poetry club for 4 and 5 year olds is a great idea. Good luck with it.

Answer 4

You could have a sort of game where you pull random words out of a hat, and have to make an improvised poem containing all of those words.

Ages 4+5 are mostly interested in poo, goo, and bogeys [Hey- I didn't make it up- they really laugh at those things] So I guess you could include some of that.

You could help write stories or something like Dr. Zeuss.

Answer 5

I actually did this in the local priary school, just over 2 years ago, when I started out I hage large bards with different subjects made and invited the children to read selected poems of the genre, then after reading them, I has then write what this ment to them, then after a while of this process, we had them write a poem on any given subject, the results were amazing, good luck with it all.

Answer 6

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