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Numbers – The action and imagination |
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Creative Context |
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Numbers – The action and imagination These web pages has been set up by
Adrian Spendlow to gather ideas on the theme of
numbers, for the East Riding’s Creative Context project for 2006. Mrs Chris Brompton arranged two really great days which were really
upbeat and creative, as the head teacher said on my leaving, ‘Another
successful visit from Adrian Spendlow’. Thank you all of you. As Sue Tolley just said in a thank you email ‘
Thanks Adrian, Here are some of the poems we created below. Actually these were just
the few I brought home by mistake there were lots more plus a follow up CD. Working with the topic of numbers led me consider the idea of what is
poetry. Someone could write two lines of well rhymed beautiful poetry and
everyone in the class copy them. They wouldn’t have written poetry because
originality, fresh ideas and stimulating ways of thinking are huge elements
of what poetry is about. Saying things in a new and interesting way. Well
that’s what happened at New Pasture School. Thanks to all you kids for being
so great. There were lots of ways we could arrange displays of our work too. Our
Emotional Haiku turn into riddle poems when you number them (with huge
eclectic three dimensional numbers) and people have to match feelings from
the adjacent list in number order. Trouble is, we were so good at the poetry
that the quiz might be easy! Everyone had a randomly chosen list of favourite
people and wonderful things to say about them, so many among us that everyone
could wear several badges “Adrian’s no. 1 Sara’s no. 5 etc. The house number
poems take you on a tour of the whole of Bridlington ranging from street to
street. “They were especially beautiful Chris well done.” Mrs Tolloch and Mrs Rowling’s classes created these performance poems
in our last session together. Because of Numbers Measuring Age Crinkled crickled in and African field Wrinkly thinking How old? Numbers dim He counts by First time he was bitten Through hundreds of seasons To now - this fierce creatures attack ‘Remembers how old He’s one hundred and twenty
years New Creation Excited and tired We say to this calculator “The best thing that ever happened to numbers” “I invented you” Shocked to succeed Ten years till now But “Yippeeee” Because Because of numbers we Have a Whiteboard - “Whiteboard!” Millilitres in shops - K-Ching! Cuckoo clocks - “Cuckoo” Gas fires to heat - Pshoo Keyboards - Da Dar Bricks for houses - Clump clump clump clump yeeow! Concrete for paths - ‘This way world,
you are welcome’ Seaside Spending See sand - One thousand million, Six thousand fishes And chips, Two! Look shells, Counting counting Er Quite a few And a smaller group from the same two classes created a top ten dreams
list 1. Monster Chase 2. Candy World 3. Skydiving 4. Mechanic 5. Jump into people’s dreams 6. Magical Dreams 7. Popstar 8. Any World 9. Mexican Dancer 10. Princess World Mrs Johnson’s Foundation Stage came up with a list of best things ever
ever. 10. Alarm clocks tick tock tick tock and ring the alarm 9. Trains going over bridges,
wooo wooo! 8. Riding on a donkey with a
hat 7. Rocking Horses, like that
like that yee haa! 6. Baby birds in warm nests
learn to fly to eat worms 5. Caterpillars, lots of legs,
crawl, crawl, in and out 4. Blue cars, pink cars,
yellow cars, flashing lights, beep beep 3. Cuddles with Mummy 2. Reading a book with daddy
in bed about Sleeping Beauty, yawn, yawn, night night 1. Dressing up pretending to be
nurses, princesses and chickens Here are two of the Emotional Haiku. These were written in Mrs
Brompton’s class (yr 1’s & 2’s). Only just standing, last in Tired looking, Closing eyes. Opening mouth wide Moving slowly down to the table Hands fast, flapping flowing Body shaking. Eyes popping, almost. Punch! Calling out ‘Yeh’ and - Hug NB note that they are observational in the same way as a haiku is.
They do not say how they feel that is up to the reader to observe. The same group travelled from door to door (I look forward to putting
a copy of their 1 for the poem up here too). Start walking….. Go to number 5… Somebody with silver scissor hands lives here - It’s
Chloe’s mum! Move next door to number 6… Nobody in! Gone shopping for Jasmine Down the street at number 12 - Playing funny games while we are having
tea with Monica’s family Hop over to 18 - Over a hundred people living at Tristan’s old house -
in caravans! Here we go to 19… Somebody lovely lives here… That’s Lataya’s mum….
Lataya is seven soon! Along the road to 28 - here lives a girl who loves lions - that’s
Charlotte - she draws good pictures! Go to number 39… A really good cook lives there - that’s Matthew’s
mum. She’s decorating today! On to number 31...Somebody lives there who always goes to football
club - he’s our ‘birthday boy’ - Liam is seven today! Go visit Ben at number 45 - a Dalmatian lives there with 101 spots! (The numbers have been changed) More to come from Mrs Tandy’s, Mr Wood’s and Mrs Carr’s classes as
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New Pasture Lane Primary School,
Bridlington |