Resources for Teachers
One thing that can be a pain when teaching is to find texts that support the curriculum. Below is a breakdown of all the main features of my poetry to make things easier when planning. Certain ones can lend themselves really well to teaching poetical techniques!
The Wolf Who Cried Boy |
Malerblatt's Tree |
Rumpelstiltskin Changes His Name
Features: Simile and Metaphor, Rhyme Hansel Moustachio And His Sister Gretel Features: Rhyme The Ginger-Haired Bread Man Features: Rhyme, Repetition/Chorus What If Cinderella Was A Fella? Features: Rhyme Robin Hood Can’t Do No Good Features: Free Verse, Repetition/Chorus The Princess Who Needed To Pee Features: Rhyme, Repetition The Ugly Wormling Features: Rhyme Sleeping Beauty Snores Features: Simile, Onomatopoeia, Rhyme, Adverbs Beauty Ate The Beast Features: Free Verse, Sporadic Rhyme, Repetition Puss In My Boots Features: Repetition Jeff And The Beanstalk Features: Free Verse, Sporadic Rhyme The Wolf Who Cried Boy Features: Repetition/Chorus The Pie Eating Piper Of Hamelin Features: Rhyme RAP-unzel Features: Rhyme Snow Always Right Features: Free Verse, Repetition/Chorus Goldichops And The Three Pears Features: Free Verse Grumbelina Features: Free Verse, Onomatopoeia What To Wear? Features: Rhyme Frog In A Bog Features: Repetition, Rhyme The Little MerCow Features: Rhyme, Repetition/Chorus, Alliteration |
Sporadic Rhyme, Alliteration, Modified Nouns, -ly words,
Watch the whole story on Youtube. LorefindersAughiskey
Features: Rhyme, Free Verse, -ly and -ness words. Black Annis Features: Free Verse, Modified Nouns. Church Grim Features: Rhyme. Dwarves Features: Rhyme, -ing words. Elder Mother Features: Rhetorical Question. Fat Lips Features: Free Verse, Modified Nouns. Grindylow Features: Rhyme. Hunky Punks Features: Alliteration, Simile. Inverness Fiddlers Features: Rhyme. Jack-in-Irons Features: Onomatopoeia. Knockers Features: Rhyme. Lubber Fiend Features: Simile, -er words. Morgawr Features: Alliteration. Nuckelavee Features: Rhyme. Owlman Features: Free Verse. Pyewacket Features: Repetition. Questing Beast Features: Simile. Revenant Features: Rhyme. Shug Monkey Features: Simile/Metaphor, Rhyme. Tiddy Mun Features: -ing and -ed words. Unicorn Features: -ness and -ing words. Verry Folk Features: Rhyme. Wild Man Features: Free Verse. Yallery Brown Features: Sporadic Rhyme. Zennor Mermaid Features: Vocabulary. |
LoreFinders: After School Club
This planning has been created for free use in schools. It is to be used alongside the LoreFinders book written by Blaidh Nemorlith.
You can purchase this book from Blaidh’s website http://blaidhstales.weebly.com/childrens-books.html If you do use this for an after school club then please send photos to the author! LoreFinders ©Thom Boulton 2016 Session: Week 1 Shared Read: Read the poem K or V (depending on preference or both if time) Discuss the size of the creatures. How big would their tools be? What normal objects could they use as miniature versions? (think 'Borrowers' such as paper clips, string as rope etc) Activity: Make fairy doors for the little creatures to use. Children draw around an arch template on card. Collect natural fallen materials from outside area and stick onto the door to decorate. Place doors against trees when finished and take photos. Resources: Card Natural Materials Glue Scissors Camera Device Right: Two examples of the doors created by some six and seven year old children. We threw in glitter, foil and beads to the mix for the Knockers. We also pretended to be the creatures and played an adapted version of 'What's the time Mr Wolf' where the children hid as I turned around. The boys in the group loved tapping on tables and other furniture whilst I wasn't looking. |
Session: Week 2
Shared Read:
Read the poem Y
Discuss the illustration of Yallery Brown. What is he doing?
Tell the children his leaf bed had blown away in the wind and we need to help him by making a new one.
Activity:
Collect leaves or use other materials to make a hammock between two chairs.
Children might use PE scarves or netting or string and paper cut out like leaves to make a suitable bed.
Test with a toy to see if it holds.
Resources:
Leaves
Netting
Scarves
Paper
String
Sellotape
Below: A picture of our mock 'Yallery Brown', wonderfully dressed up by my TA. The children used a variety of resources but favoured the scarves to make their hammocks for him. We challenged our building skills further by putting the chairs further and further apart. Was really good fun and interesting to see how the children went about building a bed, some preferring typical hammocks and others being inventive with how they tied the scarves to create a web.
Shared Read:
Read the poem Y
Discuss the illustration of Yallery Brown. What is he doing?
Tell the children his leaf bed had blown away in the wind and we need to help him by making a new one.
Activity:
Collect leaves or use other materials to make a hammock between two chairs.
Children might use PE scarves or netting or string and paper cut out like leaves to make a suitable bed.
Test with a toy to see if it holds.
Resources:
Leaves
Netting
Scarves
Paper
String
Sellotape
Below: A picture of our mock 'Yallery Brown', wonderfully dressed up by my TA. The children used a variety of resources but favoured the scarves to make their hammocks for him. We challenged our building skills further by putting the chairs further and further apart. Was really good fun and interesting to see how the children went about building a bed, some preferring typical hammocks and others being inventive with how they tied the scarves to create a web.
Session: Week 3
Shared Read:
Read the poem H
Has anyone seen a Hunky Punk in a church before? Ask where they saw them (on the roof, on a pillar etc)
Activity:
Make own Hunky Punks using modelling clay or plasticine.
When dry (if using clay) – place them around the school in different places and take pictures.
For older children you could attempt a stop motion animation of the Hunky Punk in their location.
Resources:
Clay or Plasticine
Camera Device
Computer with animation software
Below: Three examples of the Hunky Punks we made as a group. The children loved this. Again we adapted the 'Mr Wolf' game but this time the children had to find something to cling to and make a glaring face staring at me when I turned around. Their clay pieces were fantastic and they enjoyed hiding them around the room and taking pictures of where they had been stuck! Left a bit of a mess but worth it!
Shared Read:
Read the poem H
Has anyone seen a Hunky Punk in a church before? Ask where they saw them (on the roof, on a pillar etc)
Activity:
Make own Hunky Punks using modelling clay or plasticine.
When dry (if using clay) – place them around the school in different places and take pictures.
For older children you could attempt a stop motion animation of the Hunky Punk in their location.
Resources:
Clay or Plasticine
Camera Device
Computer with animation software
Below: Three examples of the Hunky Punks we made as a group. The children loved this. Again we adapted the 'Mr Wolf' game but this time the children had to find something to cling to and make a glaring face staring at me when I turned around. Their clay pieces were fantastic and they enjoyed hiding them around the room and taking pictures of where they had been stuck! Left a bit of a mess but worth it!
Session: Week 4
Shared Read:
Read the poem G
Discuss the dangers of going close to the water. Do we think the Grindylow is a story that encourages you to be safe?
Activity:
Paint a watercolour of the Grindylow’s face. When dry, place underneath a clear bowl or dish filled with water.
Children to look in and see their Grindylow peering back at them from under the water.
Resources:
Watercolours
Paper
Clear Dish
Water
Below: Two examples of the Grindylow artwork produced by the children. We split into two groups and some hid under the tables whilst others acted out peering into the water. When they came to close the hiding Grindylows would reach out and grab their ankles. They did not want the game to stop! Afterwards we used pastels to make the pictures and then placed them under a fish tank filled with water. The children again leaned in and as they did I flicked the water to splash them! Made a few of them jump and soon enough they were all lining up to have a go!
Shared Read:
Read the poem G
Discuss the dangers of going close to the water. Do we think the Grindylow is a story that encourages you to be safe?
Activity:
Paint a watercolour of the Grindylow’s face. When dry, place underneath a clear bowl or dish filled with water.
Children to look in and see their Grindylow peering back at them from under the water.
Resources:
Watercolours
Paper
Clear Dish
Water
Below: Two examples of the Grindylow artwork produced by the children. We split into two groups and some hid under the tables whilst others acted out peering into the water. When they came to close the hiding Grindylows would reach out and grab their ankles. They did not want the game to stop! Afterwards we used pastels to make the pictures and then placed them under a fish tank filled with water. The children again leaned in and as they did I flicked the water to splash them! Made a few of them jump and soon enough they were all lining up to have a go!
Session: Week 5
Shared Read:
Read the poem M
Discuss the Loch Ness Monster and his cousin Morgawr.
Have the children ever seen anything bob out of the water that might have been a sea serpent?
Activity:
Make masks of Morgawr using feathers, and other materials.
When finished, use a water track to dance to. Can the children move like the sea serpent. Side to side like a snake, or up and down like a whale... etc Perform in pairs or groups and share with each other their movement.
Resources:
Card
String
Feathers
Cellophane
Sequins
Glitter
Water/Sea sound track
Session: Week 6
Shared Read:
Read the poem X
Explain Blaidh cannot find a creature from Britain beginning with X. Ask the children if they know of one.
Activity:
Set challenge of inventing one.
Give children lines and squares of paper to write about their own creature beginning with X.
They can submit their designs to Blaidh and the most imaginative will end up on the website.
Resources:
Lined paper
Plain Paper
Email address
Below: Three examples of the wonderful imaginations that recently created their own characters. The children didn't need any thinking time, they knew exactly what they wanted to do. Some wrote poems, some wrote descriptions but all of them ran along the theme of the Lorefinders book. Great end to the club and we even had time to handout some Lorefinder certificates!
Shared Read:
Read the poem M
Discuss the Loch Ness Monster and his cousin Morgawr.
Have the children ever seen anything bob out of the water that might have been a sea serpent?
Activity:
Make masks of Morgawr using feathers, and other materials.
When finished, use a water track to dance to. Can the children move like the sea serpent. Side to side like a snake, or up and down like a whale... etc Perform in pairs or groups and share with each other their movement.
Resources:
Card
String
Feathers
Cellophane
Sequins
Glitter
Water/Sea sound track
Session: Week 6
Shared Read:
Read the poem X
Explain Blaidh cannot find a creature from Britain beginning with X. Ask the children if they know of one.
Activity:
Set challenge of inventing one.
Give children lines and squares of paper to write about their own creature beginning with X.
They can submit their designs to Blaidh and the most imaginative will end up on the website.
Resources:
Lined paper
Plain Paper
Email address
Below: Three examples of the wonderful imaginations that recently created their own characters. The children didn't need any thinking time, they knew exactly what they wanted to do. Some wrote poems, some wrote descriptions but all of them ran along the theme of the Lorefinders book. Great end to the club and we even had time to handout some Lorefinder certificates!