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:

Quatrain - Poetry Slam - Summer Learning Journey Rima Tekau Ma Tahi

Today I did a little research on different types of poems you can write. I found a poem called a Quatrain and made one about my brother who needs glasses. I also noticed that the poetry slam was up to 99 so this blog will be the 100th!

A quatrain is any 4 line poem. 15 possible rhyme sequences. For this one, I did "AABB". But you can do AAAA, ABAB, ABBA and ABCB too!

I enjoyed making my poem because I could make it as funny as I wanted it to be. I put in my poem that when he loses them he cannot see, he might just walk into a tree. I thought it was quite funny as I put it in!

I found it tricky to know what to make my quatrain poem about. I was looking around for inspiration when I saw my brother with his glasses and made a poem about him!

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my quatrain about my brother, Sebby:

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:

Poetry Slam Summer Learning Journey Tahi

Yesterday, Summer Learning Journey sent out a task. It was really late at night because I still had school, So I chose to do it today. It is a Poetry Slam. A Poetry Slam is like a competition with a panel of judges and an audience. I made a slide with ideas for poems including summer. We watched poetry slams from Solli Raphael, Daisy Lavea-Timo, Marina Alefosio and Joshua Iosefo We did this to make it easier for us to know what to make or poem about and helpful words. I like doing this because I like finding interesting words meaning the same thing. 

Did you know, that we use brainstorming in school before writing to make it easier so we don't have to think right on the spot?

I found it tricky to think of some images I could do for softly and gently. So I thought of ways you can be soft or gentle and that's how I chose to do an image of someone petting a bunny.

Next time I would focus on camping as my subject for the words.

Thank you for reading my blog, Here are my Slides: