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New uploads of poetry and Teach Poetry videos ready to view on my YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/@KatesPoems111. Short, simple, fun and handy. Here’s the latest, with tips for teachers – a riddle poem with hints of animal welfare issues, from Squeak! Squawk! Roar! –https://www.youtube.com/@KatesPoems111 (Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Pixabay) Kate
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With the moon on the news this week, it seems a good time to share ‘Moonpower’ – from my animal collection Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Yes, it IS about an animal… in a way. Moonlight changes the looks of things, as a wakeful child will tell you: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AIPbpMT9TKU Kate
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Chocolate eggs are yummy and fun, but they’re also expensive, and apparently getting smaller, as manufacturers cut costs to meet the rising price of cocoa. Chocolate eggs are not suitable for all children either, such as those with allergies or hyperactive tendences, nor are they great for little milk teeth. 😬 But an entertaining book…
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For TEACHERS! Brand new YouTube channel launched today!Two-minute shorts offering simple ideas and tips for teaching literacy and poetry at PRIMARY & EYFS. Three times weekly: Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, afternoons (with possible occasional exceptions). @TeachWriteTips Today: I SPY for phonics & letters
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‘People think I have four wheels, and another one too, to sit behind…’ A fun but sinister little poem, the latest featured in my YouTube collection, from Squeak! Squawk! Roar! – my book of animal poems. Here is ‘Jaguars and Jaguars’, and you’ll find lots and lots more at @KatesPoems111. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iHhcV4KXmIU This poem offers child-friendly…
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Wet weekends can be a trial for parents and grandparents with restless youngsters to manage, and even TV can get boring after a few episodes of the same old cartoon series. But I have a whirl of short, fun little rhyme videos to offer at https://www.youtube.com/@KatesPoems111 . These little nuggets of entertainment are fun for…
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This tiny rhyme has fun with a pun, and always wins a slow, stretching smile from children when I read it out, as the two meanings click in their heads. There’s the familiar zebra crossing that we all use at times to get safely across the road, and then there’s the zebra – zoo escapee?…
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Alliteration is fabulous fun for clever kids to craft! Here’s a cool, creepy, cunning l–l-l-lion poem to get your class started: ‘L-L-L-Look Out!’ It’s from my book of animal poems – Squeak! Squawk! Roar! – where you’ll find countless other handy launch pads for creative writing too! Your children can also watch and listen to…
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My first-ever published poem is also my very first entry in my YouTube collection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gtNTg6xcd8 A daft, humorous, rhyming story in verse about a boy missing on a school trip to a museum. Everyone – staff, parents, children – ordered to search the building. So where was Liam? The teacher in charge finds a clue…
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Are you sitting comfortably? Or at least, are you children sitting comfortably?And how about this snake?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVG5yWKJr8s (click for YouTube link) How many rhymes can your children spot? What other twisty words could I have chosen (rhyming or not)? Does this snake look scary, or just ridiculous – and a touch haughty at the end? Or…
Kate Williams 