Cinquain Poetry

Over the last couple of weeks Kaituna kids have been learning about Cinquain Poetry. Our Cinquain poems we have written are based on an ocean theme and each have the following pattern:

5 Lines

Centred on the page.

A pattern of syllables for each line (2, 4, 6, 8, 2)

A capital at the beginning of each line.

The first line is an ocean creature.

The second line uses adjectives.

The third line uses verbs.

The fourth line uses words about feelings.

The last line relates concludes the poem.

We wrote our poems in groups after brainstorming all of our ideas on a big sheet of paper. Each member of the group was responsible for one line, but we all had to agree on the final poem. After completing our draft copies we used a website to publish our poems so that they were centred on the page nicely. Cinquain Poetry Website. Then we printed them out so we could practise reading them together as a group. 

We have also been learning about drama. We have done lots of miming in class and communicating using only body gesture and facial expression. Our main focus has been displaying and recognising feelings. We have played lots of fun games to explore drama and even acted out the Big Books we use for Shared Reading. In the following slideshows of our Cinquain Poems, we have captured freeze frames of us acting out the action and feeling relating to our chosen sea creatures in our poems. We had lots of fun doing this and trying our best to display the mood of our sea creature at the same time. 

The music you can hear in our slideshows was made using body percussion only. In class we have experimented with different types of body percussion and also viewed an interesting video clip on youtube of non-traditional musical instruments using newspapers. STOMP Newspaper Music

Each member of our group had to use a different body percussion and together we tried to make it sound like the sea or the sounds our chosen sea creature might make. Listen carefully, in some videos you can hear bubbles underwater and in some you can hear dolphins!

The following slideshows were created using Animoto which is free online software for making 30second slideshows. 

Snapper by the Crustaceans.

Small Dolphins by Cnidarians.

Humongous Dolphins by the Crustaceans.

Starfish by the Sea Squirts.

Dolphin by the Seaweeds.

Slimy Dolphins by the Echinoderms.