Today I was making rhymes with my daughters. I am going to explain you the real situation. We were having dinner when my daughter Ainhoa (8) finished her food, and I told her "Ainhoa, cómete una manzana, que es muy sana" in this moment my daughters get involve in laugh, and we continue making other rhymes with other fruits and my daughter Paula (4) told her "Cómete una manzana o mejor una banana". In this situation I have understood that poems and rhymes do not have to be boring, instead of that they can be very funny for children.
For
this reason, I have been looking for other ways to use the poems and rhymes in
primary classroom. In my opinion it is very important to give freedom to
children to express their feelings without judge what are they saying, in this
way they will not have fear in the future to express themselves. It is probably
that if we are working with rhymes and poems our students tell some nonsense
things, but for this reason we are there, to guide them in the correct way.
Let´s
make poems!
We
can start the class with classic music to create a serene environment in which
children can relax themselves on the desk, think about what the music make they
feel… After the music, we can tell them to write whatever they want about their
feelings in this moment, and we can propose them to share their poem with the
class. Also, we can do this activity with some videos about animals, feelings,
or some topic that we know will provoke a reaction in their emotions.
Other
activity we can do is to show different poems to our students and they will
have to choose the poem which they feel a connection, and later they will have
to explain in an essay why they choose this poem. With this activity we can
know better our students and their feelings even their family situation which
is very important to know how you can treat them or work with them.
Finally, we can propose our student to make a “funny
rhymes book” in which they will have to create funny rhymes to include them in
the book. This book will be a traveler book because children could bring it to
their houses and read them with their parents or their family, then they will have to make a poem with the letters of their names, as you can see in the piture. When the book
will have visited all the student´s houses, it will be in the class library to
read it with all the class.
Now is your turn…what do you think about the poems in classroom?
