Wow! Whales!

We thought we'd write to the Japanese Embassy to ask them to stop hunting whales. Brian Moses had put out a call for whale poems at www.brianmoses.co.uk with this aim in mind, and so today the children of Criftins Writing Club took up the challenge.

First we watched two video clips of whales on YouTube, Orca Killer Whales Chasing and Huge whales swimming and jumping close to boat. The former has whale song so it's nice to have the sound up for that one. I gave them this sheet of whale facts so they could familiarise themselves with language such as pod, calf, migration and blowhole.

Then I asked them to write a word or phrase in response to each prompt on this list.

And here are some extracts from what they wrote.

A serious session, not so much 'fun', but it's nice to vary the tone of Writing Club from week to week.