Gearing up for National Poetry Day

National Poetry Day may not be until Thursday 7th October but Rochdale Readers are honing their poetry skills already.
The theme is "Home" so we've been thinking about words that come to mind, here is Rachel's poem.
Rachel's Words
Welcome to my
Nice
.....New
.......Lovely
.............Wonderful
...................Comfortable
Home

Of course, Ray being Ray he couldn't help adding his own slant to Rachel's words

Tap dripping, Mum flipping,
Dad fast asleep (wonderful!)
Cat's been sick, that's a new trick,
Dog's chasing sheep (nice!)
Roof leaks - two weeks
No slates seem loose (comfy!)
Could move, change groove
But really, what's the use? (lovely!)

Faiza joined us on the day and was inspired to write this poem

Faiza's House
Come inside to my
Colourful, comfy house.
It has a beautiful
Kitchen with yummy
Food and a lounge
Which has a big TV.

Thanks for those brilliant poems, Rachel and Faiza. I suppose we have to put up with Ray (well, he does bring the squash and biscuits!)
We're all looking forward to 10th July when we meet up again

Space Hop - The Summer Reading Challenge 2010

We're gearing up for Space Hop already here. We have been looking at the recommended reading lists. First we played a game, trying to match the "blurb" with the book covers. That gave us time to think about each book, so here are our recommendations, we want to read these for Space Hop this Summer.

Rochdale Readers' Fantastic Fifteen
Lauren Child - Clarice Bean What Planet are you From?
Thomas Docherty - Big Scary Monster
John Dougherty - Zeus on the Loose!
Jonathan Emmett - Bringing Down the Moon
Kes Gray - Daisy and the Trouble With Kittens
Amanda Li - Intergalactic! 150 Cosmic Jokes About Space
Andrew Murray - Ghost Rescue and the Space Ghost
Shoo Rayner - Ricky Rocket Vorg World
Chris Riddell - Mr Underbed
Gillian Rogerson - You Can't Eat a Princess!
Hannah Shaw - Evil Weasel
Lesley Sims - Moon Zoom
Jacob Martin Strid - Little Frog
Steve Voake - Hooey Higgins and the Shark
Kaye Umansky - Alien Alby

Castles can be high
Right up to the sky
Sometimes it can fly
People think it's haunted
But it's always magical
Or maybe sometimes funny

Billal, Hamad, Kiran, Mariyam, Nisa

We are still catching up with our Christmas stories here, we have been so busy on other projects we haven't been blogging for a while.

Rudolph wanted to play with the other reindeer but when the reindeer looked at Rudolph they called him names. The next day Santa came and asked Rudolph, "Will you be my team?"
On the other side of town, Coldee, the snowman woke up and saw Santa standing there. "Will you come to the Snowman Christmas Party?" he asked Coldee, and Coldee siad "YES!". Then they set off and Coldee had a great time. Pengee the Penguin was in the North Pole and wanted a party, as if by magic, Santa appeared and invited him to the snowman Christmas Party.
Then it was the night before Christmas and everyone was asleep, then Santa came and delivered the presents. In the morning, when everyone woke up, they looked at the presents and opened the presents. Everyone was happy and they wanted to play with them all day long. It was dinner time, the mums called the children in for dinner but they didn't listen! Everyone lived happily ever after.

Billal

CHRISTMAS is upon us, we all are getting ready for the christmas festival, cooking Turkey fish and chips, roast chicken yumm yumm, spaggetti ballanas not forgetting christmas PUDDINGS thats the time i jump up and say huray!!!!!!! Puting up the christmas lights making houses look more bright. It seemed to remind us about the star light. Ants and uncs come from far and near to celabrate the festive fun with there nices and nephus. Finally we all gather the fire roasting marshmallos and each telling a festive christmas story. Waiting for Santa to deliver there christmas presents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr. Stearn!!!!!!!!

Mr Stearn,

Thank you 4 giving us a turn,
Thank you 4 giving us a turn,
Your name is our Ray of sunshine,
Your name is our Ray of light,
You are so Kind,
You are so helpful,
You deserve a good turn,
You deserve a big clap,
You helped us a lot,
You're the best,
Never mind the rest,
We are glad to be in your club,
We are glad to be Rochdale readers!!!!!!

By Billal

The Stearn Poem!!!!!!!!

Stearn, Stearn Mr. Ray Stearn,
Thankyou very much for the term,
your talent is one of the best,
Than the rest,
you give us hope,
You give us joy,
You show that you care,
You show that you listen,
That's why we love coming,
That's why we love to listen,
You are truly Rochdale's best!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Mariyam