Year 3 Writers

This week a group of talented Year 3 writers are working together exploring their ideas about colour.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that "Poetry is the best words in the best order".

We tried to write free verse and to make sure our words made a picture in the reader's mind. We tried not to use too many words that weren't necessary.

Here are our poems.

Blue is sapphires and rain,
The sea is as blue as the sky.
Rivers and lakes, sharks prey.
Waterfalls splash,
To the beat of the waves.
The sky becomes lighter by the rise of dawn.
Finding sapphires in dark mines.
Oceans full of animals by Zeus’ delight.
Midnight’s here and we fall asleep.

By Robert age 6

Blue,
A beautiful, aquamarine sky.
The colour of my uniform,
Covering me
Everyday.
The sea and sky of the
New Zealand flag.
The colour of my writing.
Blueberry pie and sapphires.
Blue moons,lighting my way
At night
Dark blue denim
Protecting me in the weekend.
Blue makes me feel happy.

By Maddie

Colour
Red makes is hot fire, hearts beating,
Traffic lights glowing.
Pink marshmallows
That melt in your mouth.
I see colour when I wake.
Blue skies make me smile.
Bubble mixture is so colourful.

By Grace

Rainbows bursting
With energy and excitement
Everywhere you go.
Colours like bursting paint
Running all around.
Shades of red jump into fire.
Tinges of blue melt into water.
Colour trickles down slim ledges,
To make coloured slides.
Colour is everywhere.
Look around!

By Samantha

Exploding paint
Racing across sky into water
Making rainbows.
Colours bouncing onto puddles,
Splashing with a ting tang
Onto someone’s foot.
A bubble floats around water,
Exploding into paint.
Bubbles shine making glowing sparks,
Shooting across the concrete
Silently striking
Anything in the way.

By Julius

Colour is fireworks exploding.
The sunshine colours everyday.
It’s like different coloured soldiers,
Marching.
Shades everywhere.
Bubbles sparkle with a blush
Of colour.
Black the colour of mischief
Red has shades of feelings.
Colour is magnificent

By Emma

Colour bursts.
Green bushes and grass.
My school uniform is blue.
Purple, now what is purple?
Lost love, soft lights.
Red, OMG so hard, NOT red.
The colour of love, hearts,
Any school’s house colour.
Pink, raspberry marshmallows
And sweet cherry blossoms.
The world without colour?
Boring, just shades of
Nothing.

By Kate

Orange fireworks shoot into the air
An orange trail left behind.
Orange flames bursting
Onto the ground the colour of the sun.
Amazing goldfish
Circling around
And around.
A carrot nibbled by a hungry rabbit.
Tigers camouflaged behind dry grass.
Daffodil centres as bright
As the fur of a tiger
Orange hair swishes
In the air.
Orange petals fly all day
And night.
I see coral under the sea
It’s as hard as rock.
Monarch butterflies racing
Orange across the world.

By Neve