dreambeast poems
  inspirational poems, art & stories for kids by mark bird ...

I always look forward to teaching my class about Frida Kahlo: her amazing life story and her brilliant art. The children love learning about her, and although their outcomes are always high quality, they differ with each new cohort. I had to share these incredible Frida Kahlo inspired self-portraits by our current Year 6. You know learning has the ability to be life-long when children, some of who had already decided that are no good at Art, tell you, "I LOVE Art now - I'm so

Just a quick post... in case you haven't heard it yet. The internet is going wild for the final track on The Weeknd's new album Dawn F.M. It's called 'Phantom Regret by Jim' and it's written and narrated by Jim Carey with backing by The Weeknd. It's so powerful. I've listened to it about 20 times in two days! I haven't listened to a track so feverishly since I was a teenager. And I know a lot of people debate whether song lyrics are poetry (maybe because music helps the words

I was sitting with my class in assembly the other day and I suddenly got the primal urge to blurt something highly inappropriate out. If I really dared shout something, what would happen? Would I ever work again? And the more you think about the terrible consequences, the more you worry that you're really going to blurt something shocking out: something that could change (ruin) you life forever! 😂 😱 📣 Back in class, I asked if it happens to the kids. The universal respons