More Poems from Our Christmas Celebration

Carols singing in the night
Happiness spreads through the air
Reindeers flying in the sky
I saw Santa everywhere
Santa bringing presents for you
To leave them under your tree
Merry Christmas to everyone
And a Happy New Year to
Santa Clause and all reindeers

Santa, Santa, Where Are You?

It's late in the night,
Something's falling from the sky,
It's blue and fluffy white,
The reindeers are trying to fly.

Someone's happy, that's Mr. Ray
He's waiting at the checkout bay.
This is our Christmas rhyme,
We hope you have a good time.

Santa, Santa, where are you?
Have you gone to B & Q?
Santa, Santa, come tonight
We are wishing with all our might.

Someone's happy, that's Mr. Ray
He's waiting at the checkout bay.
This is our Christmas rhyme,
We hope you have a good time.

All the girls and all the boys
Waiting for their Christmas toys.
Angel wants a brand new dress,
Kiran wants a Nintendo D.S.

Someone's happy, that's Mr. Ray
He's waiting at the checkout bay.
This is our Christmas rhyme
We hope you have a good time.

The Best Present I Never Had

A car made of ice
Would be really nice,
So would a self-cleaning bison.
Some big cheesy sticks
That are made out of bricks
and a punch on the jaw from Mike Tyson!

Morpurgo for me
Would be nice to see.
I'd like to take him out to tea.
I'd like a magic wish come true
But it's a secret,
I can't tell you.

A spare pair of hands
Would be handy to see
I'd tickle my sister
Before she tickles me

by Courtney, Yusuf, Kadir, Ray and Craig

Presents for Santa

A beard trimmer,
I'd like to be slimmer!
One black boot,
A new red suit,
A self-launching reindeer chute.

A new pair of gloves
For my wife Mary,
A new pair of wings
For the Christmas Fairy.

Some mince pies
With a crust that flies.
Children won't
Believe their eyes!

Some red polish
For Rudolph's nose,
I'll shine it up
Until it glows

And that's the way
My Christmas goes.

Kiran's Christmas

Come in here get your brains in gear,
Have a plate of Christmas cheer,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Is always here this time of year.
So is Santa with his sleigh
To bring toys so you can play.
Merry Christmas have your way
And then you can play today,
Santa says "Hope you're O.K.!"

Christmas with Craig Bragley

The Wheatsheaf Library had a Christmas and Literacy celebration on Saturday 13th December.
Crazily Brilliant Craig Bradley, performance poet extraordinaire came along and we created some brilliant poems. Here's one of them. We hope to post a picture of our shape poem as well as all the others we wrote

Courtney came along for the first time today. Here is a poem in her honour

Course you can, Courtney.
Course you can, Dear.
Course you can, Courtney
But don't do it here!

Course you can, Courtney.
Course you can, Pet.
Course you can, Courtney
But don't do it yet!

Course you can, Courtney.
Course you can, Mate.
Course you can, Courtney
Oh no! It's too late!

Course you can, Courtney.
Course you can, Friend.
Course you can Courtney
Look out! It's the end!

Saturday 18th October 2008

We created more poems and stories at this get together.
As well as posting them on the blog for you to enjoy, Rochdale Readers highlighted the wonderful work of Author and Illustrator Nick Sharratt.

From his vast array of work we looked in particular at
Once Upon a Time - written and illustrated by Nick, this is a brilliant book where every time you tell the story it is different. This works as you get 6 characters on nearly every page to choose from to be in the story. It can be as silly or as sensible as you want - great!

Then we chose Accidentally on Purpose, where he has produced the illustrations to Kes Gray's story. This is a Daisy book (she hates peas) and by using split pages you can mix and match Daisy's actions being as naughty or as good as she can be - but she always has to go to bed early.

Finally we chose Never Use a Knife and Fork where Nick's illustrations are matched to Neil Goddards' rhyming couplets - outrageous things are done with the food - but we have all eaten ice cream and biscuits as described here.


CHECK THEM OUT!

Word Of Mouth

Word of mouth
Always travels South
Whenever you speak
You can hear a tap leak
Confidence is the word
So when writing don't get blurred
Doesn't matter if you get a smudge
Just eat a chocolate fudge
Speak loud and cleared
And you'll be heard
Speak it out loud
And you'll be proud
When you think
Just make your eye blink
Justopen your eye
And eat an apple pie

To poorly to read

One beutyfull sunny monday morning a little girl called Isabella who was only 10 years old wokeup with a really bad tempratre she went downstairs to show her mum her mum said you have got a really bad tempratre you can not go school.Isabella was the only person who was clever out of her clas and also the biggest out of her clas Isabella had everysingle talant in theworld.When Isabellas mum came upstairs Isabella was being sick her stomic hurted and so did her heard Isabellas mum toke her to the docters

BERTIE WIGGNS AMAZING EARS

Bertie Wiggins looks like Prince celi but he has big ears and his ears wiggle all the time by themselves
by Billal

Mind and Body by Billal

Legs to help you walk and run,
Eyes to help you see.
A nose to help you smell,
A mouth to help you to smile and talk,
Arms to help you hold and other things,
A brain to help you think.
A heart to help you love.
Ears to help you listen.

from Billal

Gillian Cross has been in touch

Gillian says that some of her stories might fit the themes of The National Year of Reading



Can you guess which ones go with which month?



Chartbreak - which is a teenage girl telling her story

The Tree House - which has letters from two little boys to their father

The Monster From Underground - which is about a boy doing a project in which a dinosaur's ghost gets involved.



This last story reminds Mariyam about another great story called "Jimmy Zest" - where Jimmy steals egg cartons to make a dinosaur. It's well worth reading.

A Healthy Poem by Billal

Healthy healthy stay healthy

If you don't you'll be saggy

What better way to be healthy.

How to be healthy

Eat five fruits and vegetables a day

You don't have to be wealthy

to be healthy!

THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU!

Close your eyes and look deep inside,
Concentrate your body and mind,
And soon you will find that there,
Is a whole new person inside of you!
So just have fun,
And then you've won.
When your down in the dumps,
Just close your eyes,
Focus your mind,
And you will find,
THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU!

by KIRAN IQBAL

Aliens in your mind and body bymariyam

Have you ever imagined aliens in your own body,controlling every one of your moves.If you have tried to think about it but can't ,actually imagine it being in your body, that what size and colour it might be? and what it might be actually doing inside your body? but did you know that the alien in your tummy gives you a tummy eack only if you eat your fruit and vegtables, and the alien in your brain gives you ahead eack but did you know that the alien in your mind only gives you are head eack if you eat your fruit and vegtables but that doesn't mean that you don't , have to have your fruit and vegtables.And thats why you have head ecks and tummy eacks.And did you know that the aliens in your body don't like fruit and vegtables any where you eat it and any time but the most important , thing is that you must be HEALTHY! and carbohydrates provide fuel for your pure and healthy body and your strong muscles!

In English,
Well, poetry time,
I was told to write A Cross Stick
So I did, I wrote "A Cross Stick" in my exercise book
Miss said,
Well, Miss said a lot of things
'bout paying attention and stuff
But I wasn't really listening because I could see
My Cross Stick flying like Harry Potter's Broomstick
To a faraway deserted dessert Island where animals like
The chocolate mouse, lemming meringue pie, rat-atouille live
Miss said, Miss said ............er Miss said
I think she said I should concentrate more
And my Cross Stick disappeared

READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Ostrich found in library
Cheetah using internet
Hippo hiding in the hallway
Dingo dining downstairs
Aardvark never hurt anyone (but I'm not taking any chances!)
Leopard spotted in the horror stories
Elephant trumpeting from the wildlife section

READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Eagle uses lift to get upstairs (that's eyrie!)
Alligator snaps at librarian
Dodo found in Middleton reference library
Eels sliding down the bannisters
READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Sometimes it happens

number poems

1 for a duck
2 for a bird
3 for a tree
4 for a nerd

Really good poems
Only happen when
Care is taken.
Hard work,
Dedication
And
Lots of head scratching and
Empty blank looks.

Really good poems
Excite the reader
And inspire people to
Do better themselves
Especially if they are widely read
Really good poems do that
Sometimes I wish I could write them

We will get together again on April 5th, 10-12 at The Wheatsheaf Library, Rochdale

I like Biff,Chip,Kipper and Floppy reading books.
I like poetry but I don't like it when I'm the only one out of all the class who's learnt it all by heart.
I like writing lots of stories at school and at home.

Ray

Ray is our library worker, he is a champion

poems and more

poems
Pipe piper
dragons
plants
the moon
the sun
space
(there are also books of poems you can find some in the library at 821)
stories and infomation books
Pick me up
oil spills
horid Henry
World war II
Henry VIII
(there are much more most of them in library at 821)

More infomation

If you are intrested you might want to join (For children 6 and over.)
After these meetings you can borrow books also you can buy books. If you want to borrow a book you can .you pay £1 if you lose your card. you can get a free library card.

april - read all about it

read all about it
read it now
read about the time when
my pants fell down

i ran around town
i ran around school
i ran around the play ground
and i fell in the pool

i went back home
i told my mum
what happened
the day i was dumb

read all about it
read it now
read about the time when
my pants fell down


haiku
READ ALL ABOUT IT
LIBRARY HAS READING GROUP
THE ROCHDALE READERS


When the time has come
for you to read
read the book about
Giant bees

Read about the cat
which started to fly
read about the dog
which started to cry

The little black bird
which started to bark
and the big fat elephant
which can bake a tart

When the time has come
for you to read
read the book about
giant bees

ther was an old lade ho swold a flay ho then swold a spayd to get the flay .

about poems

most poems rhyme but they don't all have to. lots of poems don't have alot of punctuation in it. there are different types of poems. poems don't always have to make sense because they could be nonsense poems.

rochdale readers

we are the rochdale readers and we meet at the wheatsheaf library about once a month on a saturday. it's the national year of reading and we love reading.have you got any favourite stories that fit the themes.

april-read all about it
may-mind and body
june-reading escapes
july-rhythm and rhyme
august-read the game
september-you are what you read
october-word of mouth
november-screen reads
december-write the future

rochdale readers are a group of young people who love reading.