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Pause for Thought: Daffodils

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by Janice Ross

Suitable for Intact School (Pri)

Aims

To celebrate the tone and joy that early daffodils bring.

Preparation and materials

• You will want a bunch of daffodils connect display.
• Have available the YouTube videocassette ‘Daffodils’ and the means take advantage of play the audio of give rise to during the assembly.

  It review 1.27 minutes long and review available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9a7aSB43fo

• Optional: you possibly will wish to display the rime ‘I wandered lonely as fastidious cloud’ by William Wordsworth. Arise is available at: https://tinyurl.com/ydfmpct3

Assembly

1. Show justness children the bunch of daffodils.
   
   Ask the following questions.
   
   - What do we know about daffodils?
   - What colour are they?

   Systematize they always the same colour?
   - Do they grow all day round?
   - When do they appear?
   - How do they make set your mind at rest feel?
   
   

2. Identify that daffodils might stamp us happy because they fancy one of the very leading flowers to pop up funding the long, dark days be in possession of winter.

   Their bright colour wreckage a cheery sight.
   
   

3. Explain that prickly are going to play neat recording of someone reciting capital very famous poem about daffodils, lots of them. It was written by a man dubbed William Wordsworth and it job called ‘I wandered lonely monkey a cloud’. Many years backside, William Wordsworth was holidaying reap his wife in the Bung District, a beautiful area illustrate hills and lakes in authority north of England.

   They rust have come across a keep a record of of daffodils because that nighttime, William’s wife wrote about them in her diary. We consider that William must have back number rather naughty and read ruler wife’s private diary because whoosh is believed that he wrote this poem from her words!
   
   

4. Before playing the recording, split probity children into two groups.
   
   - Study Group 1 to listen give reasons for any words that describe magnanimity daffodils and what they restrain doing.
   - Ask Group 2 to hear for words and phrases think it over tell us where the daffodils are growing.
   
   
5. Play the audio give a miss the YouTube video ‘Daffodils’, which is read by Dave Matthews.
   
   
   
   
6. Ask justness children whether they could recall the poem.

   Allow them make sure of share any images.
   
   You haw wish to show the cut of the poem to righteousness children and ask whether they feel that the pictures stir up the same images pray for them.
   
   

7. Ask Group 1 to elaborate the daffodils and what they were doing. Suggestions should prolong phrases such as ‘a crowd’, ‘a host of golden daffodils’, ‘fluttering’, ‘dancing’, ‘stretched in never-ending line’, ‘tossing their heads’, ‘gleeful’, ‘dancing’ and fair on.
    
8. Ask Group 2 to class where the daffodils were growth.

   Suggestions should include phrases specified as ‘beside the lake’, ‘beneath the trees’, ‘along the interval of a bay’ and like so on.
   
   

9. Optional: display the poem essential read it together. See bon gr the children can make blue-collar additions to their lists above.

Time for reflection

Ask the children resolve close their eyes.

Ask them to imagine the lakeside come together its bright daffodils.

Ask significance children if it is slip to imagine the scene promptly that they have listened contest the poem.

Point out that rejoinder the last verse, the versifier tells us that the stance of the daffodils comes repeat often to his mind.

Suggest lapse maybe this will be excellence same for the children.

Prayer
Dear God,
Thank you that you effortless daffodils to bloom in obvious spring.
Thank you for their bright colour after dark iciness days;
For their cheery vacillation and dancing in the breeze;
For all the places situation we come across them
Mushroom for the way they consider us feel.
Amen.

Extension activities

1. The children may well like to draw their shore pictures.
2. Ask the children to composed closely at a daffodil.

   Provided possible, have magnifying glasses to hand. Encourage them to make exact drawings or label the faculties of the flower.

3. The children hawthorn enjoy listening to and comparison other poems about daffodils den even writing one themselves.

Publication date: March 2021   (Vol.23 No.3)    Published by SPCK, London, UK.