As part of their Literacy work, the children in Year 3 had to choose and prepare a poem for performance, identifying appropriate expression, tone, volume and use of voices and other sounds.
Thery then had to rehearse and improve their performance, taking note of punctuation and meaning.
The class chose the poem The Tin Can Band and were divided into groups.
The class listened to Mrs Brennan reading the poem, then worked in groups over four sessions to organise how they would interpret the poem and perform it. Each group decided on musical instruments and learnt the poem. Here are some photographs of the groups performing.
On the Thursday afternoon the poem was performed for Year 4. Each version of the poem was very different and the class all enjoyed taking part. It was amazing to see the excited happy faces!
TIN CAN BAND
Oh, the tin can band,
Oh, the tin can band!
It's the dinniest band
In the big bright land.
It's a sing-song band, it's a bing-bong band.
Its a miss-a-beat, have-a-treat, skippy-feet band,
As we march along with our pots and pans,
And we bing and bong on our old tin cans.
We're a-singing and a-song to the
Binging and bonging.
We're escaping and a-skipping out
On every hand.
And it sounds like a battle
When our tin cans rattle,
When our tin cans rattle
And our tin cans clang.
Yes, it's sounding like the prattle and the
tattle of a battle
Like a merry monster cannon going
BANG, BANG, BANG!
Though silence falls when the band's gone by,
And the street is bare to the hills and the sky,
There's a nitter and a natter,
And a tiny tinny patter,
Like a whisper (only crisper)
Like a tin toy's sigh,
And a flutter like a mutter,
Like a sunny sort of stutter,
Going giggling down the gutter
Where the funny echoes die.
