List Poems

 We have been experimenting with List Poems. We each picked a category - some chose a colour, some chose 'tiny things', some chose 'fast' or 'slow' things. 

We brainstormed to come up with a list of objects that fitted into that particular category. We then added some detail to each object. An adjective (describing word), a verb (action word), or perhaps a simile. 

I learn so much from my wonderful writers... they never cease to amaze me with their wealth of knowledge and experience, and their unique way of looking at the world. I love the way they weave these treasures into their writing.

This week I learnt that a John Deere 9R-540 tractor has a 13.6 litre engine and that the super giant star called Rigel is 860 light years from Earth! I absolutely love the simile from Desmond, comparing lines in a school exercise book to human veins. Brilliant!

Check out some of our list poems, hanging on the wall in the Writing Club Room:

Black:

a grippy tyre

a grippy tyre rolling

soft creased leather shoe

matariki night scaring me

smooth ink writing poems

my shadow copying

a cook racing car dashing

frizzy, long hair

by Antonio

Fast:

racing cars, smoking tyres

slender cheetah sprinting

Isuzu truck, roaring like a tiger

John Deere 9R 540's loud 13.6 litre engine

motorbike spinning its muddy wheels

blinking, winking, a pounding heart

speedy Sophie Pascoe

freestyling 200 metres

by Hayden

Slow...

newborn baby, wiggling tiny fingers

frustrating traffic jams in the city

soft shell turtle eating a goldfish

tiny snail slithering

difficult maths test in room 8

green and blue Earth rotates

by Gemma

Yellow:

buttered popcorn popping

sunflowers rising

like calm dancers

.

bees buzzing

hot fire sizzling

like loud lions roaring

by Daisy

Fast:

no traffic jams

cars racing

camouflaged cheetahs, black spots

strong wind

small leaves swishing

like waves

blinking people

beating heart

tough athletes sprinting

to the finish line

by Elise

Blue:

clear sky

oceans, smooth as plastic

Rigel, super giant,

860 light years from earth

straight lines in schoolbooks,

like veins

by Desmond