Kate Williams

Spring is wide open and wonderful to write about! Children can focus on whichever aspects appeal most to them – from pretty blossom to muddy puddles, and from cuddly chicks to slithery tadpoles.

There are the colours to celebrate, the sweet fragrance in the air and the crisp, new shoots of leaf, grass, flower, as well as all the baby animals and the fascinating happenings of cracking eggs and metamorphosing caterpillars. 

Here’s one of the Spring poems started in my online poetry session with KS1 children at St James the Great Primary School, London, recently: 

It’s fun to focus on one animal or aspect sometimes, as in this little squirrels one of mine: 

Here are some more spring poems, including one of mine, incidentally:

http://brian-moses.blogspot.com/2021/03/spring-sunshine-sunshine-likes-to-dance.html

Poetry workshops available, online! Now booking for summer. Details here.

Spring writing sheets (graded) – and LOTS more topics – available here.

Kate
Email: katewilliams.poetry@gmail.com