Harry Reed a well known local identity, kindly visited our students last weekend, and shared his interest in poetry with our students. Some of the results are shown in this week’s student blogs. In addition we had a closer look at some of the techniques used by poets to make their poetry my interesting. The techniques that we used this week were metaphors and similes. With all but one blog up and running, readers will need to visit each blog to read what we have written, with the following exception from Noah:

The playful dog
Got lost in the fog
There was a cat who
Ate a rat
There was a fish
Who made a wish
There was a bird
Who was never heard
There was a pig
Wearing a wig
There was a goat
Who had a sore throat
There was a bunny
Who wasn’t funny
There was a snake
Who baked a cake
There was a lizard
Who got killed by a wizard
There was a cow
Who lied to meow
There was a horse
Who ate tomato sauce
There  was a donkey
that was wonky
there was a monkey
that was very funky

Metaphors and similes
Feet as large as a gorilla
As strong as stone
As big as a basket ball
As small as a mouse
As awake as an owl