Today in Year 4 we celebrated National Poetry Day by listening to some of our teachers' favourites poems. We looked at How To Turn Your Teacher Purple by P.Bowden and If All The World Was Paper by J.Coelho. We talked about what we liked and disliked about each poem, for example whether we appreciated the use of words or rhyme.

We discussed how some poems bring to life words or feelings that don’t have a physical being. We were asked what we though laughter would look like if we could see it. Following this we listened to M.Coe read her poem, If You Could See Laughter. After exploring the meaning of the poem and the different devices the poet used to describe laughter, we had a go at reading the poem aloud. 

We then adapted "If You Could See Laughter" to create our very own group poems. See below for a selection of our favourites:

If you could see music,

It would be like rainbow waves floating around you,

It would look like the sun setting,

It would have notes bobbing through the air and colourful bubbles of emotion.

If you could see anger,

It would be a ferocious tiger ready to pounce,

It would look like a nuclear reaction riding the wind,

A flash of thunder and bolt of lightning,

Plates smashing on the floor.

If you could see imagination,

It would make your dreams come true,

It would look like a mammal with no hair,

Or floating on the clouds and walking on the sky,

If you could see global warming,

It would look like under water creatures dying,

It would be small islands and lost children,

And maybe look like burning forest fires and no more nature,

Our trees are gone,

Home are destroyed.