Snowball Poem - Poetry Slam - Step It Up - Summer Learning Journey Rima Tekau Ma Ono

Today for the Summer Learning Journey we had a poetry slam task. It was to do a snowball poem. This is the step it up task.

A snowball poem has a lot of lines and each line is longer than the last. Sometimes by one letter, and sometimes by one word- like a snowball rolling down a hill, it gets bigger and bigger as it rolls down! There was not very much information on snowball poems, so there is not much information here but the name pretty much explains it!

I found it tricky to make the right amount in my sentences because I kept accidentally having one word less or one word more. 

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my Snowball Poem Step it up:

Snowball Poem - Poetry Slam - Summer Learning Journey Rima Tekau Ma Rima

Today for the Summer Learning Journey we had a poetry slam task. It was to do a snowball poem. At first, I did not know what a snowball poem was! 

A snowball poem has a lot of lines and each line is longer than the last. Sometimes by one letter, and sometimes by one word- like a snowball rolling down a hill, it gets bigger and bigger as it rolls down! There was not very much information on snowball poems, so there is not much information here but the name pretty much explains it!

I enjoyed making my poem about surfing because the beach and boogie boarding are one of my favourite things to do in summer. My whanau go every night when the weather is good after dinner to have some family time there while the beach isn't too hot and the chance of getting burnt is a bit lower. One day I want to get a surfboard and start surfing too! 

I found it tricky to make the right amount in my sentences because I kept accidentally having one word less or one word more. 

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my Snowball Poem:

Clerihew Poem - Poetry Slam - Summer Learning Journey Wha Tekau Ma Tahi

Today for the summer learning journey we had a poetry slam task. We had to do a Clerihew poem. I chose to make my poem about my sister who jammed her finger in the door then had to go to the hospital. I actually wrote about this earlier this year. I have a blog about it, check it here. Don't worry, the doctors have stitched my sister's finger back on so it is still there.

A Clerihew poem only has just a few simple rules: They are four lines long. The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person. They are normally for fun.

I enjoyed making it a bit funnier because it was scary at the time but we can laugh about it now that it is back on. I did not find anything tricky. I thought this task was really fun and I did not find anything tricky.

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my Clerihew Poem:

My Summer Tanka - Poetry Slam - Step It Up - Summer Learning Journey Tekau Ma Iwa #2

Today for the Summer Learning Journey we had to make Tanka poems.

Tanka's were first written in the seventh century and were one of the first Japanese poems. I thought that Haiku would be older but tankas are 1000 years older!

I enjoyed writing my Tanka because tankas seem really cool to me and they are like haikus which I really like doing. It was also really cool learning that Tanka's were so old yet I am doing one in the distant future of it being invented. I also made a Pivot sentence.

I found it tricky to make what I want to say in the right format. If you don't know, tanka's follow a pattern. Its syllables go from 5 to 7 to 5 again then 7 and 7 again. A few times I thought of something then it was eight syllables so I had to think hard to make it fit and use different words. I used the online thesaurus to help.

Here is my Tanka:

That Was Summer!

Today for the summer learning journey I had to make a poem about summer. Did you know not all poems rhyme? I learnt that there is more than just two types of nouns. I enjoyed making the poem because it was nice and easy and did not take that long. I found it tricky to find an image on tolaga bay because there was not many and most did not show the beach. So I looked a little longer and found a really good one. Next time I would change it so it had more writing on it rather than mostly picture.

Here is my poem:

Here is my screencastify:

Sorry I did not post this! Here are the slides!

Summer Sounds Poem

Today for my summer learning journey I had to make a summer sounds poem. I had to read a poem then go outside, record then listen to what I can hear. Then make it into a poem

I liked recording the video because it was the easiest bit.

It was hard to make the audio for the poem because it is very loud here in my house.

Next time if I had to do this again I would do it where it was not raining because that there is not many things in the rain but lots in the sun.

Here is my slide deck: