dreambeast poems
inspirational poems, art & stories for kids by mark bird ...
turn back the clock - johnny hates jazz
we go together - john travolta
Dreambeast says:
What was/ will your final day of school be like?
Write your own countdown of the last six hours. What will happen as each hour speeds past?
p.s. If you had to choose just one, which year in your life has been your 'wonder year' so far? What made it so special?
Also, use the poem as part of a Year 6 Transition and Leavers
Book. Click the image below.
The Full Stop Day
Last six hours of primary school
Goodbye is getting near
The sums and sentences all done
The full stop day is here
Last five hours of primary school
Where everything's before
The aims and games and crazes
no one’s crazy for no more
Last four hours of primary school
Surrounded by a class
who'll scatter soon and not return
when summer’s days have passed
Last three hours of primary school
One final lunchtime play
Instead of chasing friends we try
to chase and catch the day
Last two hours of primary school
The clock hands blur and skid
Signing shirts, remembering
the coolest things we did
Last one hour of primary school
where teachers understood
And helped me see I could achieve
for they believed I could
Last half hour of primary school
The assembly we all dread
We cannot sing - us Year Six kings
The crown slips from our heads
Last ever second of primary school
The full stop rings in our ears
But a thousand chapters left to write
We must vacate our childhood site
For time moves on and time is right -
To leave our wonder years
©2009 Mark Bird
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Mark @dreambeastpoems.com
The Full Stop Day features in a brilliant 'Leavers and Transition Book Project' for Year 6.
Click below to find the downloadable and editable files on my blog post.
