A proud Mummy post today. My big kid was set homework this week which should have been right up his street. The “beachcomber” topic that they have been following at school is interesting to him, but he is suffering from end-of-term-itis and really didn’t fancy doing extra poetry on the theme of creatures in rock pools at home.
Once I’d explained that he had to do it and no, I wasn’t going to do it for him, he sat down with me and decided to 1) do the poem on just one rock pool creature and 2) research that creature to get the information to go into the poem.
He also had to make sure there was an adverb, an adjective and a simile…
This is the result – an acrostic poem. Getting there was a bit blood-out-of-stone but worth the effort in the end…
The Beadlet Anemone
Aggressive animal, stings like a bee;
Nobbly blue beads on a blob of orange jelly;
Exciting red tentacles wave slowly to and fro;
Mouth on its bottom; slippy-slidey foot to go.
One hundred babies will come out of it one day;
Nestled in its rock pool, eating its prey.
Enemy anemone, keep away!
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