Bugs has been the theme for Raupo and we have been looking at different ways to write a poem from Haiku to Tongue Twisters. Totara have been working on some very sophisticated forms of poetry which they shared in assembly today.

Scorpian Tongue Twister

A silly scorpion scraped silly Sally.

Silly Sally screamed.

Silly Sally was scared and scared the silly scorpion with her scream.

By Kingsley

Moths

Struggling in the web

Now I'm someone's lunch

Look, it’s a light bulb

by Tenzi

Tardigrade Tongue Twister

Tommy the tardigrade Loved

Tuna, he had a Trillion tuna tarts.

A day which made him do the

Super, Trooper, Tuna, Tommy Tardigrade, Twisty, Twist.

by Waka

Ants

Creepy, crawly ants

Teeny, tiny, sticky feet

Crawling up your wall.

By Seren

THE APPLE EATER

Andy had an apple with an apple eater in it.

Andy tried to eat the apple but the apple eater ate it.

That made Andy angry so Andy tried to eat the apple eater, but the

apple eater ate Andy before Andy could eat it.

Cricket Tongue Twister

A cricket was in a wicket while it tried to pick it’s way out of the ticket.

But the cricket could not pick it’s way out of the ticket. So the cricket in the wicket was stuck in the ticket.

Another cricket came along to help for the cricket in the wicket was feeling sick. The cricket nicked the ticket and the cricket in the wicket was no longer the cricket in the wicket stuck in the ticket.

By Jennifer