Inspirational English, Issue 42, Jan/Feb 2018 Inspirational English, Issue 42, Jan Feb 2018 | Page 12

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absorbed a great deal by listening, reading Finally, you also bring lots of joy into the
and absorbing the poems of the poets whose classrooms in many countries by reading
work I loved. I only ever wrote one poem poems via skype. How can teachers find
when I was a child, and I was 11 years of age. more about it and get in touch with you?
Although I’d never been taught to write poems,
I can see from this one poem that I’d absorbed Yes, I love skype visits and so do the children
a great deal and the rhyme and the metre are whom I visit. I’ve made some really wonderful
100% perfect, and the subject was something friends worldwide via skype as a result of my
close to my heart – my little garden. It is on visits. Two little girls in Argentina did a picture
my website where you can see it. to go with one of my poems, which was lovely,
Josie, winter is upon us. Do you have a but imagine my delight and surprise when their
favourite “frosty” poem to share with our teacher, Graciela, arrived at my home the
readers? following summer, carrying the picture. Now
Yes, I love the changing seasons, and in the children can see the picture on my wall
poetry, using personification especially and when I visit their class. Details of arranging
drama, it is possible to bring the season to life skype visits are with every poem on my
in a delightful way. Children enjoy my poem website.
called “The Winter Picnic” in which Winter and Simply Google
his good friend Ice have a picnic in the cold
winter weather – quite the opposite in every
way to that which a child would enjoy I’m sure.
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