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FIRE-UP FRIDAY Tips and ideas to fire up your class of poets! Today’s tip: Get your class outside. Never mind the weather – they’ll live! Stretch legs and senses, stimulate circulation and imagination, shake off fidgets, blow away yawns. NB You may like to take a notepad and pen to collect the children’s words…
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Here’s my latest video-poem, up on YouTube today: ‘What I Heard from the Castle Kitchen’: https://youtu.be/vRXopzersAk This little poem of mine contains a dramatic and mysterious story, set in a medieval castle at night. Published in ‘A Child’s First Poetry Book’, Macmillan, 2012. Liven up a wet afternoon, history lesson or poetry session!
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Attention teachers! Starting next Friday, 2nd February: FIRE-UP FRIDAY! Fire up your young poets! Quick tips weekly – all poet-tested! As a published children’s poet with workshop experience from countless schools across England and Wales, I’ll be posting simple tips, ideas and suggestions here, with examples and development possibilities, every Friday.…
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What Colour am I? This 1 minute video-rhyme is rich in clues, as well as in rhythm, pictures and fun! Click: https://youtu.be/JGKvOUDyXmk PLUS – lots more video-poems and rhymes on my channel, Poetry Fizz, all for children (and young-in-mind adults!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO_w75QsEJYLsH6ickyeI0g Enjoy! Kate
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FIREWORK POETRY SESSIONS – in school or online – available now! Details and booking via my agent, Authors Abroad. (NB Awaiting updating of Authors Abroad page above from summer seasides to winter fireworks and lights!) Also available – free – FIREWORK poetry-writing ideas and support, via video: https://youtu.be/5FtYdYg5vkI . Have fun with your creative class…
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NATIONAL POETRY DAY (UK) lands on Thursday, 5th October this year, with the theme of REFUGE. Are you ready? Here are some ‘refuge’ poems to inspire you – and your children if you’re a teacher, guardian or minder, at Poetry Roundabout: https://poetryroundabout.com/2023/10/02/national-poetry-day-refuge-poems-from-top-poets/… Mine is up there – or down there! –…
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TOPICS THIS TERM: AUTUMN LEAVES, WILD WOODS (& THEIR CREATURES). FIREWORKS, WEATHER. IN SCHOOL (IF IN REASONABLE REACH), or ON SCREEN. BOOKING THROUGH MY AGENT, AUTHORS ABROAD (click for link). ACTIVE AND INTERACTIVE, FUN AND INSPIRING! Details, prices and availability via Authors Abroad. More details, including content, feedback and photos here, on…
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Parrot Talk is my latest video-poem. It’s short, punchy, funny and daft, and will get even your reluctant poets on board! It’s fun when a parrot answers back… isn’t it? Mmm, not when they get OVER cheeky. Any rhymes to spot, within the rhyme? Can your class make up another rhyme, to…
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Lucky Me! is a bright, fun, little video-poem about having a double family. The poem’s narrator is a child with a mum and dad and also a step-mum and step-dad – i.e. both their parents are now with new partners. This means a double family for this contented youngster, making the poem a celebration of…
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Hello, My latest little video-poem, Banjo in the Sunset Glow, is now up on my YouTube channel – set to punchy music and bright pictures. Do take a look, and if you have any children around, show them! My poems are all FOR CHILDREN! This is a fun, jazzy, relaxing rhyme…
