So today was the day,
our students let it play,
an outstanding burden of poems
came out bursting from the stems.
Running all the way,
our kids made them stay
in a fellow mate´ s brain,
as a shower of spring rain.
as a shower of spring rain.
Os adjunto el vídeo de la dramatización del poema 'The Lady of Shalott' de Alfred L.Tennyson,emblema de la poesía de la Inglaterra Victoriana, trabajado, declamado y cantado por 6ºA y con la colaboración especial de Sofía, de 6°B representando a la Dama de Shalott.
Our students in Primary have devoted several days to reading and even writing some poems as a way to take part in those activities promoted by the Spanish Language Department.
Our little ones in 1º and 2º have enjoyed some songs and phonetics (tongue-twisters) in which rhyme is the main core of the texts.
3º has started writing poetry in English with some amazing outcome, such as Rafa´s:
"I play Pokémon Go,
but my level´s so low..."
We also watched a poem about a tired and depressed bee that lost its zest...
4º has done some research about some poets like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, W.B. Yeats, William Shakespeare´s sonnets...
Their projects can be seen hanging on the school corridors and their portraits of such poets are to be watched in detail.
6º has dealt with the poem by Alfred L. Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott".
Some groups in A have learn some bits of the poem as the song Lorena McKennit sang. Some others have become Medieval scriveners, imitating those letters in ancient manuscripts.
Some others made some presentation with the paintings about the LAdy of Shalott that can be seen in some British museums.
Sofía, from 6ºB played the role of the Lady of Shalott while some other kids in 6ºA sang and read the poem in several classes in Primary.
6ºB has developed their creativity when writing some poems in English.
All in all, we felt challenged by poetry during several days, making it possible to start playing with words in another language to find our own inner voice.
