We read William Carlos Williams poem "This is Just to Say" about him admitting, and apologising for eating plums without asking. We discussed what it means to admit or confess something.
Kakapo kids brainstormed their confessions and ideas.
Using a similar format to Williams poem, children wrote their own poems. We spent a lot of time re-working our writing to ensure we had interesting words that created a picture for the reader. For example - rather than using 'yummy' to describe a chocolate, 'gooey' was used.
When it came to publishing our poems the criteria was to use a background image that related to their confession. The font had to be readable - so we had to think about the background picture. Can the words be seen with a different colour, or was a bolder font or highlighting needed?
Children worked on a shared document to publish their poems. There was a few challenges around this (such as accidental deletion of slides) but these were ironed out quickly luckily.
We really enjoyed reading each others poems. We have given each other feedback and have reflected on things we may change if we did this task again.
You can read the poems by checking out the individual blogs. We'd love to hear what you think so please leave a comment!
