"Dog" poems

In S.F. Said and Dave McKean's magnificent book Varjak Paw, Varjak, a cat, is on a mission to get help from a dog. But he has no idea what a dog looks like, so he mistakes cars for dogs!

We wrote poems describing these "dogs" as Varjak saw them:

By Anabel

Here's a gallery of our poems:

A poem for today

Today is,

Yesterday's tomorrow

Today is,

Tomorrow's yesterday

Today is,

Today's today

So today is,
Today, yesterday and tomorrow.

Snowman Day

Here is a picture of our garden and our snowmen, we also made an igloo but I don't have a picture.

School-closer

Grass-coverer

clothes-freezer

garden-whitener
water-freezer

Snow day

 This morning we went to school but we turned back as school was closed.

 

 

a white ball
an orange nose
a snow lover
a hat put on

Music and words for animal creation

In music with Mr Davidson 4G have been creating music for Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf - the moment when the animals are created. We went on to begin the movements that should go with the music, and the words to be said. Here below is the music and the words we've created in our groups:

Mouse

Bird

 

Snake

Wolf

What am I?

Grass-slinker
a Bird-eater
a high-jumper
a fast-runner
a meat-eater
a insect-squasher
a rare-species
a good-hearer
a man-eater
an animal-killer

What am I?

A fruit – eater
A loud– squeaker
A branch – hopper
A banana – searcher
A great – laugher
A cute – smiler
A tree – jumper
A wonderful – banana stealer
A funny – speechlesser
A high – swinger

What am I?

A squawking-rainbow
A branch-stander
A sky- flyer
A rainbow- squawker
A forest-talker.

Kenning by Macy

An animal-hunter

A stripy-stalker

A growling-worker

A white-runner

A predator-scarer

A river-swimmer

A fast-eater

A white and black-roarer

I’m a Bengal tiger!

What am I

 A worm-eater

A multi-coloured-glider

An amazing -squawker

A clever-copycat

A great-talker

A fruit-chewer

   Put these together 

                                                                          I'm a parrot

What am I?

By Jaime

What Am I?

• A stain skin.
• A trees climber
• A meat eater
• A mammal animal
• A very fast runner.
• A four legs athlete
• A jungle inhabitant
• A hunter specialist.
• A very soft skin.

What am I

I have lots of trees 
I have rivers 
I have animals 
little creatures and bugs 
mud, sun, rain and grass
waterfalls
and leaves. 

What am I

A Cheeky-troublemaker
A cute-climber
A tree-dweller
A mischievous-swinger
A banana-eater
A water-drinker

I'm a _______________.

What am I?

By Anabel

A brown animal
A small-nosed creator
A very good eater
A plant liker

An insect biter
A baby cuddler
A slow walker
A loud squeaker

A striped mammal
A small being
A furry figure
A bumpy muzzle

A hay sleeper
A insignificant scamperer
A small scurrier
A grass snoozer

What am I?
Try and guess
Maybe hard
A picture might help.

What am I?

By Noémie

A noisy- squeaker
A banana- eater
A big- swinger
A little -predator
A branch-lover
A big – jumper
A leaf – hugger
A large - laugher

WHAT AM I ?

By Cristina and Lucia

A night-flyer
A small-creature

A wing-flapper
A thumb-walker

A cave-hanger
A tree-climber

A cow-biter
A blood-lover

What am I

What am I ?

An animal-eater

A river-swimmer

A tree-climber

A deer-chaser

A meat-devourer

A black-runner

A log-scraper

A high-jumper

Add these together

I'm a                           

Magnificent Chameleon

A colour-changer

A grass-scurrier

A scaly-sleeper

An eye-blinker

A tongue-flicker

A fly-catcher

Put them together

I am a chameleon!

What am I?

A fast runner,

A hard chewer,

A grass hider,

A fur licker,

A man killer,

A black striped mammal,

A friendly animal,

A meat teaser,

A cat family,

A deadly animal,

A high jumper,

A den animal,

A loud roarer,

A carnivore.

 A simple tiger

Have a guess?

What am I?

What am I?

 A champion swimmer,

A carnivore,

A big eater,

A deadly killer,

A human killer,

A quick swimmer,

A water animal,

A very dangerous animal,

Have you guessed?

A simple piranha