Thursday 6th October is National Poetry Day and this years theme is Games. Games doesn't just mean things like playing football or rugby; a game can be anything that we play - on our XBox, with our dolls, make-believe and dress-up... we can make a game of everything that we do - counting how many red cars we see on the way to school, seeing how many animals we can list in a minute, singing a song...
Go to the National Poetry Day website by clicking here. They have lots of ideas for activities you could do on the theme of games, and there are a lot of 'game' poems on there - though some of them might not make a lot of sense to us in year four! If you go to the Children's Poetry Archive you can hear Allan Ahlberg [the bloke who wrote "Please Mrs. Butler!"] reading a poem all about football...
Finally, here's a poem about games that I found:
Ten One-Line Poems about Sport
Golf
That white moon in the blue sky, orbiting.
Cricket
Long late-afternoon shadows as the bowler runs.
Basketball
The clock runs down slower than the players.
Swimmers
Moment of stillness before the start: water-mirror.
Snooker
The giant's necklace broke and the beads fell on to the grass.
Football
This net's for catching slippery goalfish!
Marathon
Last metre: the best and the worst
Rugby
Flying Easter egg under the H.
High Jump
The air holds me like a hand, then lets me go.
Cycling
Here comes the fastest paper boys and girls in the world.
Ian McMillan
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