Miss Davies’ performance poetry family task - Week 1

Hi everyone! Every week I am going to be sending you a poem.

The whole family can join in learning and performing it!

Here is some excellent advice from the maestro Michael Rosen to help make your performances really good https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/michael-rosen-s-top-tips-for-performing-poems-and-stories/.

I will try and include videos of poets/children performing the poems to inspire you but your ideas will be the best. Have fun!

https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poems/beware Scroll to the bottom of the page to see James Carter read the poem.

https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poet-videos/children-performing-poetry Scroll to the bottom of the page to see children from St Thomas of Canterbury School perform this poem.

BEwARe!

by James Carter

There's a ...

jaw-snapper

teeth-gnasher

river-swimmer

dives-for-dinner

fish-catcher

back-scratcher

cave-seeker

winter-sleeper

forest-dweller

grizzly-fella

sneaking, lurking

here and there...

you beware -

it's a BEAR

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