Year 2 – Writing week beginning 01.06.20Welcome to our writing journey…The Poetry Olympics!

Our writing journey will be based on the book ‘Olympic Poems’ by Brian Moses and Roger Stevens. Our

writing journey is going to be covered over two weeks in order to make sure we really understand the patterns of the poems. Throughout the two weeks we will explore the poetry from the book and investigate different features that can be

used to create poems. At the end of the two weeks we will be writing our own poems about The Olympics.

Like at school, we need to know what we are writing, who we are writing it for and why. Below is your writing journey

explained.

Monday 1 st June 2020

Purpose: You are writing to entertain.Audience: You will be writing to the Year 2 children. Form: You will be writing a poem.Effect: Your writing will need to entertain and interest your readers.

LO: To build deeper understandings through research. Before we begin to explore the poetry within the book ‘Olympic Poems’ I would first love you to investigate the Olympics. This will enable us to build deeper understandings about our topic and what we could use within our poems at the end of next week. Below are website links where information can be found if you are able to access the internet.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z87tn39/articles/z36j7tyhttps://www.activityvillage.co.uk/all-about-the-olympic-games https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-greek-olympics.html https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/sports/summerolympics.html https://www.factmonster.com/sports/sports-section/olympics-fun-facts https://kids.kiddle.co/Summer_Olympic_Games https://www.olympic.org/sports

If you do not have access to the internet I have found some key facts and attached them below.

Tuesday 2 nd June 2020

LO: To read and decode poetry. Today you will be exploring the different poems from the book ‘Olympic Poems’. Your task will focus on reading the different poems within the book in order for you to read the varied styles of poetry that different authors create. After you have read the different poems about the Olympics I want you to discuss what you notice about each of the poems. Does the poem have a title? Is there any rhyming words? Also I would like you to decide what your poem will be about. What do you like about the poem? What don’t you like?

AthleteFast runner

Never give upperHard trainerCareful eaterStop watcherDawn catcher

Muscle stretcherDream followerTeam memberRecord maker Gold winner

Roger Stevens

To Be an Olympic Athlete…You need a lion’s heartAnd a swift pair of feet,

to be a championOlympic athlete.

You need exercise,so get off the settee,

jog in the park

To Be an Olympic Athlete…You need a lion’s heartAnd a swift pair of feet,

to be a championOlympic athlete.

You need exercise,so get off the settee,

jog in the park

Running the MarathonI’m going to run the marathon,

wearing a diving suit,strapped to a parachute.

With a cloak and staff like Noah,pushing a garden mower.In a ballet dancer’s tutu,

cracking a cowboy’s lasso.Yes, I’m going to run the marathon,

inside a suit of armour, leading a Tibetan llama.

As an ancient prince from Khartoum,

Running the MarathonI’m going to run the marathon,

wearing a diving suit,strapped to a parachute.

With a cloak and staff like Noah,pushing a garden mower.In a ballet dancer’s tutu,

cracking a cowboy’s lasso.Yes, I’m going to run the marathon,

inside a suit of armour, leading a Tibetan llama.

As an ancient prince from Khartoum,

The Real BattleOn the school field

Or in the Olympic stadiumYour competitors smile

While plotting to beat youBut the real battle

Is in your headRoger Stevens

Mark SpitzEveryone remembersthe name Mark Spitz.True American hero,

they loved him to bitz.

He broke word recordsin a bit of a blitz.

Won seven gold medalsthen called it quitz.

More than anyone else,American or Britz.

Bit of an iconwas swimmer Mark Spitz.

Brian MosesI Never Learned to Dive Like DaveI never learned to dive like Dave,

I never learned the skill.In fact I never learned to swim

and now I never will.

But Dave had a way with waterand Dave had a way with waves,he understood the ebb and flow

of how the sea behaves.

And Dave showed all of Ramsgatehow diving should be done,

competitions entered, medals and trophies won.

There on the high diving boardyou’d see him strain for height, then calmly jump, flip, rotateand take his downward flight.

Challenge time: Vocabulary investigation.If there are any words you do not understand I would like you to investigate the meaning of each of the words. Here is a link to a website to help you find the definitions of the words you are finding tricky:https://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/?ent=swimmer

I Never Learned to Dive Like DaveI never learned to dive like Dave,

I never learned the skill.In fact I never learned to swim

and now I never will.

But Dave had a way with waterand Dave had a way with waves,he understood the ebb and flow

of how the sea behaves.

And Dave showed all of Ramsgatehow diving should be done,

competitions entered, medals and trophies won.

There on the high diving boardyou’d see him strain for height, then calmly jump, flip, rotateand take his downward flight.

Wednesday 3 rd June 2020 LO: To identify rhyming words. Today we will be exploring rhyming words and where we can find them in pieces of poetry. However we first need to understand what rhyming words are. What are rhymes?Words that rhyme have the same sound.

'Cheese' and 'peas' both have the same sound. You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups of words that use the same sounds.

If you have access to the internet here is a link to a video which helps explain rhymes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjhhvcw/articles/zqjgrdm

Task 1Today we will be matching rhyming words in order to understand that rhyming words are words that have the same sound.

If

you are finding it tricky to identify sounds, here is something to help you with your sounds.

If you found this too easy and would like a challenge try to come up with three of your own rhyming words for the objects below.

Challenge time: To identify rhyming words in poems from the book ‘Olympic Poems’.Highlight the rhyming words in the poems from the book.

I Never Learned to Dive Like DaveI never learned to dive like Dave,

I never learned the skill.In fact I never learned to swim

and now I never will.

But Dave had a way with waterand Dave had a way with waves,he understood the ebb and flow

of how the sea behaves.

And Dave showed all of Ramsgatehow diving should be done,

competitions entered, medals and trophies won.

There on the high diving boardyou’d see him strain for height, then calmly jump, flip, rotateand take his downward flight.

With scarcely a ripple showingthe water would welcome him in.

Dave was a hero to all of us,an incentive to go out and win.

But I never learned to dive like Dave,never for me the ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’

as Dave stood balancing on the board,arms reaching out to the stars.

Brian MosesAthleteFast runner

Never give upperHard trainerCareful eaterStop watcherDawn catcher

Muscle stretcher

Thursday 4 th June 2020 LO: To use and create rhymes. Today we are going to carry on from yesterday and work to create our own rhymes using rhyming words. Before we can start we need to recap what rhyming words are.

AthleteFast runner

Never give upperHard trainerCareful eaterStop watcherDawn catcher

Muscle stretcher

Mark SpitzEveryone remembersthe name Mark Spitz.True American hero,

they loved him to bitz.

He broke word recordsin a bit of a blitz.

Won seven gold medalsthen called it quitz.

More than anyone else,American or Britz.

Bit of an iconwas swimmer Mark Spitz.

Brian Moses

Rhyming words are words that have the same sound as one another. For example:

Today we will be adding rhyming words into sentences to construct a rhyme. Remember these rhymes are going to be focused on the theme of the Olympics as we will be creating our own poems focusing on the Olympics next week. Below is a word bank of the missing words that complete the rhymes to help you. fun beat outfeet doubt winin run roundapplause yours ground

1. The gun bangs and the man starts to ________________. He finds it such _______________.

2. The gymnast performs her routine to the ____________. She is very quick on her ______________.

3. There is no __________, that when the runner goes _________, he will __________, he never gives _________.

4. Then one day, who knows, to the sound of _______________, you will stand on the steps and the gold will be _______________.

House and mouse are rhyming words because they

share the sound ‘ou’.

Pen and hen are rhyming words because they share

the sound ‘e’.

5. Head in the clouds, I don’t look ________________, keep my feet clear off the ______________.

Challenge timeToday for your challenge I would like you to work at creating your own rhymes. This will help to continue to make rhymes by connecting words that share the same sounds. Remember to check the words you come up with share the same sound! Here is something to help you with checking your sounds.

Friday 5 th June 2020 LO: To construct deeper understandings. Today we will be constructing deeper understandings about the theme of our own poem that we chose to write about on Tuesday. By constructing what we know about our chosen theme in depth this helps us begin the planning process of our poem as we then have a stronger starting point of what to write about. See Miss Matthews’ example below.

Olympic running

Your turn!Remember to think about all of the vocabulary you know for your focus.

run

fast

Run in lanes

100m race200m race 400m race

800m race

1500m race

Relay race

sprintathlete

Introduced in 1896

training

race

Specialised equipment

shoes

batonhurdles record

medals

Usain BoltWorld recordStarting blocks

Challenge time: Create rhyming words using deeper thinking.Now you have thought about all of the things you know about your main idea, I would like you to pick out some of the words you have come up with and create rhyming words for them.See Miss Matthews’ example:

Olympic running

Usain Bolt – fault Shoes – lose Run – funFast – lastRace – pace

run

fast

Run in lanes

100m race200m race 400m race

800m race

1500m race

Relay race

sprintathlete

Introduced in 1896

training

race

Specialised equipment

shoes

batonhurdles record

medals

Usain BoltWorld recordStarting blocks

Your turn!Remember rhyming words must have the same sound!

Next week we will be carrying on our work with poetry in order to write our own Olympic poems by Friday.