Our focus POEM for week 7:
Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Patterson Read HERE…
What a classic Australian poem, come song, written by Banjo Patterson in 1895.
Here’s ‘Waltzing Matilda’ in song with the lyrics.
Words and their meanings:
After reading the ‘Waltzing Matilda’ poem we discussed what vocabulary might be unusual or unknown. Some of these words included:
Swagman: a person carrying a swag or bundle of belongings
Billy: a cooking pot with a lid and handle for using when camping
Squatter: a person who settles on land without the right to
Jumbuck: sheep
Billabong: a pool of water that was part of a river
Ebony: a heavy hard dark wood
Reading of Independent Poetry Verse …
Students shared their independently created ‘personification’ verse to the class.
When I blew the golden trumpet
This week the class learnt about ‘Similes’ and worked on the third verse of our model text:
VERSE 3 (Pie Corbett)
When I blew the golden trumpet,
winter leaves fell like frail playing cards,
the sun sizzled in the sky like a polished button,
stars glittered like sequins on an ebony ball gown,
a river wound its way round a hill like an anaconda and
clouds drifted by like grey candy-floss.
Here was the class innovation of verse 3
When I thumped upon my drum,
dreamy white chocolate melted like cold ice,
an angry teapot steamed on the stove like a hot sauna,
a heroic knight danced the nay nay like Rick Ashley,
a great tower collapsed with an almighty thud like the falling twin towers and
a quiet lake whispered like the still wind.
As we were constructing this verse together, there were some words like ‘hot’ that we felt we could improve upon. Sometimes the right word is not available, but we can come back later and improve our writing.
Home Tasks
- Rewrite your own VERSE 3 – using the simile ‘like’ and use the boxing up sheet. Bring your writing to share in class next week. Type up all the verses you have created (verse 1, 2 and 3) to avoid loosing your work. NOTE: We will share our poems first next week!
- For inspiration, go to this link to read a bunch of poems that use “similes”
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- ‘Simile Poems for Kids‘ by Kelly Roper
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- Add at least one word, a phrase or an idea to the ‘Magpie Treasures’ part of your magpie journal. You certainly may add some more thoughts if you find more:)
Downloads if needed:
When I blew the golden trumpet boxing up chart similes (Just the first part for this week)
