Welcome back for our last term of 2022. Congratulations to all students who have remembered to bring their Library bags – we have a HUGE number of overdue books so we need to remember to look around and find the books we have at home.

 Library tomorrow is for Kinder.

Next week:

Tuesday – Year 2

Wednesday – Year 5

Thursday – Year 3 

In Library this term all students will spend some time exploring different types of Poetry. What is Poetry? Britannica Kids defines poetry as a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader’s imagination or emotions. The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Some poems, such as nursery rhymes, are simple and humorous. Other poems may try to express some truth about life, to tell a story, or to honour a person or something special in our lives. It appears in many forms and styles. 

One thing that makes poems different from other types of writing is their structure. The words of a poem are arranged in lines and groups of lines, called stanzas, or verses. Poets use a number of different techniques to make their poems interesting. 

Poems can be about anything at all -

Sitting Here Pen In Hand, Brain In Neutral!

© Paul L. Kennedy

 I want to write a poem, but I don't know where to start.
Should it be an ode to love and come straight from the heart?

Or should it wax lyrical of sky and moon and stars,
or of planets of our universe Pluto, Jupiter, or Mars?

It could be of the flora or fauna of this, our wonderful land,
or of walking barefoot on a lonely beach kicking up the sand.

Of countries and of places where the surroundings seem so strange,
frozen lands, dense jungles, valleys deep and of vast mountain's range.

Rivers long, the life blood of lands they pass along their way,
irrigating crops and refreshing thirsts continually night and day.

Or of the sheer beauty of Mother Nature we can experience all around,
from the gigantic right down to microscopic, many wondrous things abound.

Maybe of the sadness felt when the highest price is paid,
be it that of unselfish sacrifice of life or whenever it is made.

Well, after all those varied thoughts, I have no idea how to carry on.
I only wish I had learned some music, and then I'd have written a song!

Source: 

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/sitting-here-pen-in-hand-brain-in-neutral

Find some more funny poems here:

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/funny/rhyme/

Remember to take a few minutes to look further at the Britannica Kids site to find out a bit more about what makes poetry special.

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/poetry/353645.

Take  time to read and relax. We look forward to seeing all the happy smiling faces back in the Library. 

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world.

Love of books is the best of all."

Jacqueline Kennedy

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB

Catalogues are going home this week for Issue 7, ordering on-line is the only way to order.  No orders and money will be accepted at school.  Orders will close Friday 22  October.  Thank you for your support with this program. 

Happy reading!