Grade 5/6/7s Flower Poetry

6 June, 2009 By Miss Sian 1 Comment

Our Grade 5/6/7s were inspired by the beauty of flowers and how they touch our lives with their vibrant colours and tender petals. Here are three of their soul-touching poems …

I LOVE YOU SO DEAR

My beautiful flower,
White like new fallen snow, scent sweet like a lollipop,
Yellow center like the sunset at the end of the day,
Each petal curling like a great teacher’s hair
Laying lightly on her beautiful face.

Three boastful buds, dark purple with yellow dots
Like stars in a never ending night, waiting to be let loose
And see the world around them.

Oh Flower tell me how you feel,
Are you sad or happy, would you wish to be anything but?
I wish to be you, do you wish to be me?

For you are so small and I am so big,
Your buds are patient, waiting, just waiting to be let free,
I know you’ll be as sweet and soft as the one in front of you.

ROUGE

This flower as red as a cherry
Petals like ruffles on a ball gown
With vibrant yellow, in between,
You could pick this flower to say I Love You.

If this flower could talk, what would it say?
Would it be modest? Would it be kind?

If this flower could dance,
Would it dance like a ballerina?
A modern dancer?
A jazz dancer?

If this flower could wish, what would it wish for?
A beautiful world?
Love, like the love of Romeo and Juliet?
Faith, like the faith of a teacher has in her student?

And what about me?
What would this magnificent flower think of me?
Me,
Me,
Me…


CRIMSON GARLAND

A dash of crimson, in a bright flowing gown,
The petals wither on the wind, as detailed as a finger print,
The tree swelters in a molten volcano.

O flower, O flower, what are you feeling?
O flower, O flower, what do you wish?
For you are a touch of radiance in the gloom of the murky forest
You have enough power to bring out the joy in a still tree
You are a phenomenon of dominance.

O flower, O flower, do you feel envy?
O flower, O flower, Never fear because you are phenomenal,
Phenomenal, phenomenal.

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Grade 5 Shell Poetry

29 May, 2009 By Sian Jones 2 Comments

bonnie-20091All the children in Grades 3 – 7 have enjoyed writing poetry with Miss Bonnie this week, using the ‘Private Eye Program’.

The Private Eye is a program about the drama and wonder of looking closely at the world, thinking by analogy, changing scale and theorizing. It’s based on a simple set of tools that produce “gifted” results.  Hands-on and investigative, The Private Eye uses everyday objects, a jeweler’s loupe (magnifier), and simple questions to develop higher order thinking skills, creativity and scientific literacy: “What is that like?”  “What else does it remind me of?” “What else does it look like?” These analogies, written in the compressed form of metaphors and similes, become the bones-for-poems.

Each of the children in Grade 5 wrote a poem after looking closely, through a loupe, at a scallop shell.  Here are a couple of them.  Can you guess which shell they were looking at?  Can you see how the shells inspired their poems?

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War Shell

Barb wire getting boiled in molten lava

Bullet wounds in fallen soldiers

Blood on the white silver sand

Tears of loved ones on the lonely bed

Terrible cries of agony on the battlefield

True and noble soldiers put to the test.

My Shell

An early morning sun

Patterns like waves on the beach

A racing cheetah in the forest

Lines that are parallel,

A sandy beach from a distance,

Zig zag lightning strikes.

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G1-7 Sports’ Day 2009

5 March, 2009 By Miss Sian Leave a Comment

Our Grade 1-7 Sports’ Day was a great success today and was packed full of  fun.  The children were full of energy, determined to do their best and displayed excellent teamwork and sportsmanship.  See the movie below for all the highlights.

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See more movies on each of the teams that took part:  Blue, Yellow, Green and Red… [Read more…]

Filed Under School News, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

2nd TCI National Cross Country Championship

16 November, 2007 By Miss Sian 3 Comments

On the morning of Friday 16th November, a group of 6 girls and 3 boys represented Provo Primary School in the National Cross Country Championships.

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Schools from all over Turks and Caicos took part and our children participated in the 1 mile event for children under 11. All of the children completed the course in quite exceptional times – bearing in mind that the team had been hit by illness over the past 2 weeks, affecting training schedules. In fact, our Girls’ Team finished within a few places of each other, demonstrating super team spirit and our best team score to date. There were only 3 boys able to compete and they all did well – our best placing being 5th overall – an outstanding achievement considering the size of our school and the number of competitors.

Well done to all our athletes, we are so proud of you!

Filed Under School News, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Sports’ Day – Grades 1 – 6

26 April, 2007 By Miss Sian 4 Comments

Following on from the highly successful Kindergarten Sports’ Day, Grades 1 to 6 had their annual Sports’ Day at 4.00pm this afternoon. The children arrived at the Football Field wearing their team colours and competed against each other demonstrating a wide range of skills and a lot of stamina!

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