The Colour Poem Project is On Again!

We were excited when Mrs McK received a tweet from her friend Mrs Yollis in California, 

inviting us to join the Colour Poem project again this year.

Join our Collaborative Poetry Twitter Project!

Details: https://t.co/AV2KURb3RA@NZWaikato @judykmck @Michelle_Colte @mauilibrarian2

— Linda Yollis (@lindayollis) April 4, 2016

Read our posts and poems from last year's project.

This year the project kicked off with poems about 

black and white.

Our class wrote this poem, using the Måori words 

Må (white) 

and Pango (black).

We tweeted our poem, using the #clrpoem hashtag. 

By using the hashtag, we get to read all of the poems, from all around the world, even if we don't follow the classes on Twitter.

Each week, the poems will be about a colour on the visible spectrum - the colours of the rainbow - 

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

Here is an easy way to remember the order:

R O Y G B I V 

This week, the colour is RED.

What do you like about the colour red?

A Song to Finish the Colour Poem Project

The colour poem project has come to an end. 

For our final contribution we would like to sing a song about the colour names in Måori.

Mā is white,

whero is red,

kākāriki green

Pango is black,

Mangu is too,

A. E. I. O. U.

Kōwhai yellow,

parauri brown,

kikorangi blue

Mawhero pink

Karaka orange,

A. E. I. O. U.

Some of us are wearing pink for Pink Shirt Day - a day where people stand up against bullying.

Do you know some colour words in another language?

Blue

The colour poem project continues.

As we worked on our 'blue' poems we were learning that good writers 'show' not 'tell' - letting the words create pictures for the reader.

We started our poems by writing what blue tastes, feels, sounds and looks like.

We thought carefully about our words.

We were pleased with what we wrote.

We were surprised when Mrs McK suggested that now we should take out any word that said 'blue' and any phrase that said 'looks like' 'tastes like' etc.

We gave it a try, and we think our poems sound even better now! What do you think?

What do you think - did we manage to create word pictures for you?

Our Colour Poems

A few weeks ago we were invited to take part 

in a colour poem project. 

Each week a new colour from the visible spectrum is showcased:

R O Y G B I V

The poems are shared with other classes via Twitter, using the hashtag #clrpoem

We missed the Red week, but here are some of our poems for Orange, Yellow and Green weeks.

The next colour is Blue.

Do you have a poem to share with us?

Let's Colour Our World

We have been invited to take part in a global project, where classes create poems about a colour. 

Each week there will be a new colour to write about.

You can read about the project here on 

Mrs Yollis' class blog in California.

The poems will be shared via Twitter, under the hashtag

#clrpoem.

We have created a class Twitter account so we can take part - our Twitter name is @opendoorb4

Does your class use Twitter as part of your learning?

Let us know your username.