KS1 - Literacy - Where My Wellies Take Me (1)

Learning Objective - KS1 Literacy

To develop pleasure in reading by listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of poetry (From English National Curriculum: KS1)

Resources

Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo

Sketchbook (or similar) for each child

Pencils

Colouring pencils

Photocopied poems from Where My Wellies Take Me

Glue

Introduction

Introduce Where My Wellies Take Me

Explain the background to the poetry collection and how the writers loved growing up in the countryside, and loved learning poems

Tell the children that just like ‘Pippa’, the children are going to take a walk through the countryside and see what they can see!

Activity

Lead children on a walk through the countryside (or other outside area) and ask children to point out anything that interests them, or anything that reminds them of one of the poems in the anthology e.g. a butterfly or ladybird as in Christina Rossetti’s poem Hurt No Living Thing

Give each child a sketchbook and photocopies of poems

Ask them to stick poems into scrapbook as in Where My Wellies Take Me

Ask children to read the poems carefully and think about the best way to illustrate them

Children then need to illustrate poems by drawing or sticking in any natural found items that are appropriate.

Extension

Children need to share their decisions about how they placed their poems in their sketchbooks and how they chose to illustrate them.