Category: Learning

• The Mind Sharpener

  #writeclub #writing #character The blank sheet of brilliant white paper seemed a heck of a lot smaller with each turn of the pencil as it chewed away You could have said the garbled message at the top of the page with its blunted instruction was clearer by the end of the scribble and with each […]

  inkdropk

  14 Nov 2022

  Character, Learning

  blunt, Character, clear, Message, nib, Paper, Pencil, sharp, sharpener, Turn, Writing

• Covered

  #Fowc #wdys #Children #Art #Garden #Paint The children of the Kindergarten wanted to play outside the nursery nurses brought out the colours and paper with lots of pride And from these miniature Rembrandts Rainbows formed in colourful arc And giggles and laughter could be heard on the grass as they painted things from the park […]

  inkdropk

  9 Nov 2022

  Art, Childhood, Learning, Poetry, Schooldays

  Art, Children, fowc, Nursery, Playgroup, School, WDYS

• Perfectly Imperfect

  #Octpowrimo #Imperfect Little jim came home from school with something that he’d prepared a picture painted on a board of his favourite bear Now unofficial critics would pick holes in the picture he made but it didn’t stop his mum and dad on the wall it was displayed See while he worked on the piece […]

  inkdropk

  18 Oct 2022

  Arts, Childhood, Learning, Poetry

  Art, Bear, board, Displayed, Effort, Imperfect, Infant, junior, Learning, octpowrimo, Painting, Perfect, Schoolboy

• Listless

  #Octpowrimo #Fowc #Listless It’s Not as if you hadn’t prepared subject matter set out on the table in the middle of the classroom with easels primed for pencil and paint Inside the class they came like a legion of soulless zombies earphones have to be removed to say “Hello” Enthusiasm greeted by yawns and groans […]

  inkdropk

  12 Oct 2022

  Childhood, Growing up, Learning

  Class, fowc, Interest, Learning, Listless, Mess, octpowrimo, Prepared, Pupils, scene, Still life, Subject, Task, Teachers

• National Poetry Day

  #Nationalpoetryday #UnitedKingdom #Education #Poetry A poem for National Poetry Day in UK – My Octpowrimo is on now too – just click the link.

  inkdropk

  6 Oct 2022

  Learning, Poetry

  birds, Education, Flying, Indoors, Learning, National Poetry Day, Outdoors, Poetry, Reading, Sunshine, Thoughts, United Kingdom

• Silent

  #Socs #Silent It’s no wonder the dictionary is so full today letters seem to have tip-toed in without a sound chorus of approval from teachers as characters wrangle their way in like dark knights entering the castle crescent as you write, the letters appear like ghosts but read them out wrong – in class – […]

  inkdropk

  10 Sep 2022

  Learning, Schooldays

  Classroom, Learning, letters, Schooldays, silent, socs, spelling

• Family

  For each family group a sense of togetherness is important Mum and dad teaching the basics of life so In time, when they leave the nest, they’re well prepared to yomp off on their own – not yet though – they need to find their feet.

  inkdropk

  19 May 2022

  Animals, Birds, Learning, Nature, Poetry, Water

  Children, Cygnets, Dad, Family, Lake, Learning, Mum, Pond, Stream, Swans, togetherness, Water, writephoto

• Reach for the Stars

  #Writeclub #Ambition With thanks to Matt @ Writeclub for the prompt…. When you were young do you remember those flights of fancy? played out in the playground by the school Pirate Ships Captains Goodies and Baddies Cowboys and Indians led by The milky bar kid Or flying up to space to see who’s living on […]

  inkdropk

  27 Apr 2022

  Childhood, Learning, Life

  ambition, Captains, Cowboys, Dreams, Exploration, Geography, Indians, Napowrimo, Pirates, Planes, planning, Playground, Plotting, Rockets, Science, Ships, Spaceman, writeclub

• Learning your Lesson

  #Napowrimo #writeclub #Learning with a nod to Leanne @ Writeclub for the prompt I Learning begins as soon as your born as you’ve got to waddle across the floor to get to your soft toys II Instruction comes from your elders touching something hot if you don’t know what you’re doing leads to singed little […]

  inkdropk

  21 Apr 2022

  Growing up, Learning

  arithmetic, Cooking, Crafts, Creativity, Danger, English, Experience, Growing up, Instruction, Learning, Maths, Napowrimo, Parents, Reading, Warning, writeclub, Writing

• Morning Lessons

  

  #Learning This morning i learnt you don’t have to have milk with everything News can wait till after you’ve woken up The sound of passing traffic can be quite relaxing (through two panes of double glazing) Never trust the weatherman (leave the umbrella by the front door) Grab each moment as it comes – and […]

  inkdropk

  11 Feb 2022

  Learning, Life, Poetry

  birds, Lessons, Life, Morning, umbrella, Window, writeclub