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Overview of Y2 Summer Term

WELL-CRAFTED WORDS

Truth to Teach (Source)

Heart concepts: Creator and Creation, Order

 Just as God’s creation reveals order and structure, so too when we create words, we proceed
best when we consider the structures inherent in our language.

 To write a poem as a class then to write individual ones

Way to Work (Means)

1. Using some coloured bricks, beads or objects set out some in a repeating pattern. Ask a child
to set out the next few items in this pattern. Do this again with a new repeating pattern.
Establish that the pattern has been worked out then continued.

2. Give clues for the children to find repeating patterns in God’s world. (The seasons; the
phases of the moon; the tides; life-cycles; etc.) He has used patterns in his handiwork.
Explain that the children are going to look at a poem with a particular pattern of words.

3. Let the children see a copy of the poem ‘Sun’ by Steve Turner and give them some time to
read through it on their own. Alternatively, use another poem. If a child cannot read these
words, have him or her team up with someone else. Then read through the poem together.

4. Let the children respond with thoughts about the poem.

5. Explain that each line consists of one word to describe the sun. If you put the first line into
a full sentence, what might it be? (The sun brings light.) Ask the children what else the sun
does. (eg The sun helps plants to grow, from which we can get food.) It may well be worth
going through each line of the poem in this way. Each word in the poem is based around a
doing word.

6. Read it through and appreciate it again. The next step is to help the children make up their
own words based on the pattern of this poem.

• Suggest some subjects. They may want to do one about Jesus and call it ‘God’s Son’. Two
other titles similar to ‘Sun’ are ‘Wind’ and ‘Water’.

• It is probably best to do one together and then, on another day, have the children each do
their own poem.

• Stop and pray, specifically asking the Holy Spirit to put thoughts and words into the
children’s minds.

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