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Overview of Y2 Summer Term

USING WORDS IN PAIRS

Truth to Teach (Source)

Heart concepts: Creator and Creation, Order

 Just as God’s creation reveals beauty and balance, he can help us to bring a balanced
creativity into our writing too.

 Appreciation of poetry – ‘Fish’ by Mary Ann Hoberman

Way to Work (Means)

1. Review what has been learned over this half-term.

2. Notice how many of our organs are in pairs. Our bodies are balanced. Look at other
examples from God’s creation: leaves, or petals, or winged creatures.

3. Introduce the poem ‘Fish’ by Mary Ann Hoberman, letting the children first read it
themselves and then reading it through together. www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html

Discuss why the print gets smaller and smaller at the end. (It is to emphasise that the fish,
although very active are silent. Draw the children’s attention to the opposite of this in books,
where words are printed in capital letters for emphasis.)

Ask why the children think Mary Ann Hoberman wrote this poem.

4. Draw the children’s attention to the doing words. (They end in ‘ing’; they are in pairs, most of
which rhyme – which do not? What happens instead? – alliteration) The doing words are
beautifully balanced. Experiment with re-arranging them in a different order.

Explain that the author probably worked at it and re-wrote it several times until she felt that
“Yes!” and knew that she had done it!

5. This might be a good poem to learn, appreciating the rhyme, and the fact that it gets quieter
at the end.

6. Let the children have copies of the poem to put illustrations around it.

Learning for Life (Fulfilment)

1. The children will appreciate that words can be balanced.

2. The children will appreciate that being creative can be satisfying and it can bring pleasure to
many as well as glory to God.

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