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Welcome to my poetry blog for kids and teachers
Welcome to my poetry blog for kids and teachers! I believe that poetry is a wonderful way to inspire creativity and imagination in young minds. My poetry blog for kids features a variety of poems, from silly and fun to thought-provoking and meaningful. I hope you enjoy reading and sharing these poems with your students and children.
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UPDATE: Many of my poetry blog posts now include Creative Writing, Drama and Poetry Lessons for teachers featuring creative writing and poetry worksheets.
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The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems
When stars align and the new anthology, that I'm proud to be featured in, matches things on your sideboard...😂 OUT TOMORROW! Yes it may...
Mark Bird
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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The School Run - a great resource for parents and teachers
The School Run is such a rich and incredibly informative, accessible website. It helps you understand what children are being taught at...
Mark Bird
Mar 16, 20211 min read
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The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems ... out on March 18th
I am so proud to be included in #BrianMoses new collection of funny poems. Check out my poem "Halloween Date From Hell" and all of the...
Mark Bird
Mar 15, 20211 min read
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Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
I am and always will be an 80s kid at heart #Ace #Brill #Skill and I love poetry but I love music too... the lyrics, melody and forlorn...
Mark Bird
Mar 13, 20212 min read
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Dreambeast Dream Poem For Kids - Your your beast of a dream is dying to get out!
Dreambeast by Mark Bird explores the powerful, untamed nature of our dreams and the importance of nurturing them.
Mark Bird
Mar 12, 20214 min read
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Rhythms by Sue Hardy-Dawson ... "The Ripple of Rain's Moonless Night"
"Rhythms" ... I discovered this rhythm-driven, sound-worshipping, nature-observing and time-revering poem by Sue Hardy-Dawson on Twitter...
Mark Bird
Mar 11, 20211 min read
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Thinking by Walter D Wintle ... A Legendary Poem
Thinking by Walter D Wintle ... A Legendary Poem
Mark Bird
Mar 10, 20211 min read
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Zaria Forman's Incredible Pastel Art ... Inspiring Children
My class of Year 6 children started their art project based on the work of Zaria Forman. Zaria Forman documents climate change with...
Mark Bird
Mar 10, 20211 min read
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The Invisible Dog by Brian Moses
When I was growing up in the 70's, I wasn't allowed a dog, but my mum and dad seemed to have a soft spot for scraggy, stray cats that...
Mark Bird
Mar 9, 20211 min read
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Timothy Grimothy - He'd Not Had A Bath All Year!
What's it like to be the filthiest, dirtiest, grimiest boy in the world ? As a kid, I had to be more or less cattle-prodded into the bath...
Mark Bird
Mar 9, 20212 min read
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Inspiration in Isolation
As we emerge from #Lockdown this is a great website with loads of poems and creative writing which tell the story of many people's...
Mark Bird
Mar 9, 20211 min read
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Gorgeous Golden Retriever Learns to Wear PPA
Service dog Sampson works as his owner's lab assistant at the University of Illinois. What an incredible dog. What we do without man's...
Mark Bird
Mar 7, 20211 min read
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"Ignore Them."
A headteachers' brilliant, self-written poem for the 8th March #BacktoSchool. It would give any class of children a reason to feel proud...
Mark Bird
Mar 7, 20211 min read
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Amanda Gorman's soul-stirring call
Aren't words beautiful?... Aren't words powerful?... Aren't words fragile?
Mark Bird
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken maybe an obvious choice for favourite, most inspiring poem ever ... but that's the point right there...
Mark Bird
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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Look at our incredible one-point perspective L.S. Lowry art ...
We were inspired by L.S. Lowry #Lowry to explore #perspective and #proportion and the the lives of the industrial North. These Year 6...
Mark Bird
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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Never try to be anyone else
#MePoem As we return to #school after #Lockdown forget what you hear about catching up but hold on to the fact that you are unique,...
Mark Bird
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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Peter Max Art for Children
I'm not sure how many teachers use Peter Max's work to inspire children's art.... but believe me you should. They love his work and are...
Mark Bird
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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Skellig School Display
David Almond's brilliant book #Skellig inspired my Year 5's charcoal display... it was so powerful and spooky that the Reception children...
Mark Bird
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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Great quote from Brian Moses
Never ignore the knocking!
Mark Bird
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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A one stop paradise for great children's poetry
Please visit The Children's Poetry Archive for some wonderful examples of great children's poetry. One of my all time favourites is...
Mark Bird
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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Love Poetry ... Love Music ... Love #Stats ?
Come join me at Last.Fm if you love music and want to rival my eclectic tastes!
Mark Bird
Mar 5, 20211 min read
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The Final Countdown ...
As teacher it was our last day of #Zoom today before we all go back to #school.... we started the day with The Final Countdown by Europe...
Mark Bird
Mar 5, 20211 min read
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MC Grammar in the #WBD house
What a brilliant song for World Book Day - a genius mash up of some of the great children's books ... Edited artwork by Wasim, a pupil...
Mark Bird
Mar 5, 20211 min read
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