Yesterday my group of home-educated kids came round and we wrote poems to woodlice. There was a lot of kindly louse handling, and not a few moments of losing them in the sofa or capturing them as they made for the safety of Under the Rug. We talked about their habits, their food, the length of their lives and the pleasing fact that a mother … Continue reading ‘How I trained my woodlouse’…
A short and high-spirited workshop today with home-educated kids Isaac, Loreta and Mollie. First we choose from The Museum of Lost Objects. We described them to each other, then did 5 minutes focussed free-writing (spelling-and-punctuation-free-as-long-as-you-can-read-it-back). We shared that, chose the best bits. Then we looked at some poems written as cinquains, so there are 5 lines, and each line has a set number of syllables in it: … Continue reading Writing for The Museum of Lost Objects
JEAN ATKIN 