Month: May 2021
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Hello teachers! Also any interested parents! I’m offering exciting, fun, interactive poetry workshops as ever this term, with seaside and ocean themes. Choose between Stormy Sea, Deep Sea Secrets, Seaside, and Sea Monsters, with variations for each class. Details on my Virtual Workshops page. Here’s a poem of mine about a sea…
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Empathy comes naturally to many children – perhaps to all, even if – like adults – they don’t always find it easy to act on it. In my poem ‘New Boy’, the children feel for their new classmate as I believe most would, especially with one or two leading the way. Perhaps a poem…
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Chuffed to see my poem ‘Dragon in the Sky’, with its wonderful illustration by David Legge, has had over 3,000 views on YouTube! (Click to watch and listen). The reading by Sue-Anne Webster, video created by the publishers, The School Magazine, Australia. They have also recently republished the poem – with its fascinating…
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If happiness was edible, what would it taste like? That may sound like a daft question, but I find it a handy one when describing feelings. Here’s my poem ‘If Feelings Were Flavours’, published in Poems about Emotions, chosen by Brian Moses for Wayland publishers. I’m giving it an airing here to…
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Belatedly posting to say ‘Hooray and thanks!’ to Brian Moses (@moses_brian) for inclusion of my ‘Once There Was A Dragon’ in his lovely KS1 Mini-Anthology: Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel (brian-moses.blogspot.com) . There you’ll find bubbles, lemurs, a bear in his underwear, a boring shopping day turned fun, my crazy dragons, and more, by…
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Some people hate the wind, but I find it exciting. The sounds it produces, the lights and shadows it shoots, the way it sets the trees swaying, like ships on a wild sea, can be thrilling. So, rather than huddle indoors, I like to join in – run, stretch, dance, sing, shout with the gusts…
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Hmm, what lovely Bank Holiday weather – not! But no matter! Let’s attack it, stare it in the face, scoop it up and jump right over it with this simple little word game. It’s actually a poem as well as a game – an exciting one brimming with poetic techniques like onomatopoeia and imagery –…
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Thrilled to have poems included (again) in the latest two mini-anthologies of famous poet Brian Moses, with themes – Sea & Seaside and Mini Beasts, with contributions by a number of established children’s poets. I highly recommend a browse of both, with their colourful assortments of poems, ideas, styles and illustrations. Great for…
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My poem ‘Anticipating’ celebrates the bursting out of spring… and glimpses the next season, waiting in the wings. Here it is, rounding off the Children’s Page of the May edition of Better Than Starbucks, the upcoming print and digital poetry magazine (bottom right of page). You’ll find a vibrant array of other poems there…
Kate Williams 