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Coldham’s Common | Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen
MICHAEL ROSEN'S POEM FOR HISTORYWORKS PROJECT, DIRECTED BY HELEN WEINSTEIN.
You can browse more videos like Michael Rosen Chocolate Cake on the Official Michael Rosen channels:
https://www.youtube.com/MichaelRosenO...
You can browse and buy Michael Rosen Books here:
michaelrosen.co.uk/books
These poems, story and interviews are free resources and make great starting points for English lessons. In this video, Michael Rosen performs his own work and talks to Francesca Simon, author of the 'Horrid Henry' books.
➡️ For news, updates, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK storytime resources and ideas like these visit the Micahel Rosen website michaelrosen.co.uk
Michael's poems, stories and interviews are great free resources and they could make great starting points for English lessons for kids, TEFL or ESL lessons, children's theatre or homeschooling UK there are lots of pearls of wisdom.
For example:
Why not share this clip?
Discuss performance poetry - what does it make you think?
Look at other Michael Rosen poems - which ones do you like, why?
How does Michael's work compare and contrast with another poet?
Teachers or Homeschoolers - work with your kids to create your own performance piece for selected poems.
Pupils could create their own story poems about favourite foods, strict teachers or a Bear Hunt.
Buy NEW Michael Rosen T-SHIRTS, STICKERS and STUFF here - bit.ly/2UumE6N
Check out Michael's website michaelrosen.co.uk
for news, updates, free resources, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK storytime resources and ideas.
The Michael Rosen Reading for Pleasure book - amzn.to/2WkkUxb
COLDHAM’S COMMON: creatingmycambridge.com/history-stories/coldhams-common
Read more on Cambridge prehistoric flying reptiles & on coprolite mining (dino poo) at CmyC website here: creatingmycambridge.com/history-stories/coprolite-mining
COLDHAM’S COMMON
The years pass
and the grass grows,
the grass grows over
the years disappear...
Underground
clues are found.
Listen! And we can hear
across a hundred million years...
The sound of the sea
where now there’s a tree;
giant lizards in the sky
wide wings take them high
swooping on fish in the waves
gliding over rocks and caves
flapping and stopping
leaving their droppings
for millions of years
right here, just here.
The years pass
and the grass grows,
the grass grows over
the years disappear.
What were droppings and bone
turn to stone
deep down, day and night
silent, slow, out of sight
vast beyond measure
a secret treasure
deep in the ground
waiting to be found.
Up above people come and go
their pigs and cows moving slow
free to graze upon the ground
until a Lord puts fences round:
nowhere for the pigs and cows,
and with the people starving now
one Jack o’ the Style leads a revolt
with a hundred others they call a halt
break the fences and burst back through
with pigs and cows, their hens and ewes.
The years pass
and the grass grows,
the grass grows over
the years disappear.
One John Ball from Burnell way
beneath the grass, said there lay
some sort o’ magical stuff
the which - if ye had enough,
mixed it right, made it just so,
it’d make any plant grow
and in a matter of just a few years
thousands came and dug right here.
Very few knew that all the while
they were free to do so, ‘cos of Jack o’ the Style
very few knew that the reason why
was down to lizards in the sky
for millions of years, leaving behind
what many years later, others would find.
The years pass
and the grass grows,
the grass grows over
the years disappear
and here we are:
we stand right here.
#MichaelRosen
#KidsTV
#homeschoolinguk
Coldham’s Common | Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen
MICHAEL ROSEN'S POEM FOR HISTORYWORKS PROJECT, DIRECTED BY HELEN WEINSTEIN.
You can browse more videos like Michael Rosen Chocolate Cake on the Official Michael Rosen channels:
https://www.youtube.com/MichaelRosenO...
You can browse and buy Michael Rosen Books here:
michaelrosen.co.uk/books
These poems, story and interviews are free resources and make great starting points for English lessons. In this video, Michael Rosen performs his own work and talks to Francesca Simon, author of the 'Horrid Henry' books.
➡️ For news, updates, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK storytime resources and ideas like these visit the Micahel Rosen website michaelrosen.co.uk
Michael's poems, stories and interviews are great free resources and they could make great starting points for English lessons for kids, TEFL or ESL lessons, children's theatre or homeschooling UK there are lots of pearls of wisdom.
For example:
Why not share this clip?
Discuss performance poetry - what does it make you think?
Look at other Michael Rosen poems - which ones do you like, why?
How does Michael's work compare and contrast with another poet?
Teachers or Homeschoolers - work with your kids to create your own performance piece for selected poems.
Pupils could create their own story poems about favourite foods, strict teachers or a Bear Hunt.
Buy NEW Michael Rosen T-SHIRTS, STICKERS and STUFF here - bit.ly/2UumE6N
Check out Michael's website michaelrosen.co.uk
for news, updates, free resources, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK storytime resources and ideas.
The Michael Rosen Reading for Pleasure book - amzn.to/2WkkUxb
COLDHAM’S COMMON: creatingmycambridge.com/history-stories/coldhams-common
Read more on Cambridge prehistoric flying reptiles & on coprolite mining (dino poo) at CmyC website here: creatingmycambridge.com/history-stories/coprolite-mining
COLDHAM’S COMMON
The years pass
and the grass grows,
the grass grows over
the years disappear...
Underground
clues are found.
Listen! And we can hear
across a hundred million years...
The sound of the sea
where now there’s a tree;
giant lizards in the sky
wide wings take them high
swooping on fish in the waves
gliding over rocks and caves
flapping and stopping
leaving their droppings
for millions of years
right here, just here.
The years pass
and the grass grows,
the grass grows over
the years disappear.
What were droppings and bone
turn to stone
deep down, day and night
silent, slow, out of sight
vast beyond measure
a secret treasure
deep in the ground
waiting to be found.
Up above people come and go
their pigs and cows moving slow
free to graze upon the ground
until a Lord puts fences round:
nowhere for the pigs and cows,
and with the people starving now
one Jack o’ the Style leads a revolt
with a hundred others they call a halt
break the fences and burst back through
with pigs and cows, their hens and ewes.
The years pass
and the grass grows,
the grass grows over
the years disappear.
One John Ball from Burnell way
beneath the grass, said there lay
some sort o’ magical stuff
the which - if ye had enough,
mixed it right, made it just so,
it’d make any plant grow
and in a matter of just a few years
thousands came and dug right here.
Very few knew that all the while
they were free to do so, ‘cos of Jack o’ the Style
very few knew that the reason why
was down to lizards in the sky
for millions of years, leaving behind
what many years later, others would find.
The years pass
and the grass grows,
the grass grows over
the years disappear
and here we are:
we stand right here.
#MichaelRosen
#KidsTV
#homeschoolinguk
