This week the children in 1BN have been learning about poetry and as part of this we looked at onomatopoeia and similes. Onomatopoeia is when words sound like the noise being described. For example, crunch went the leaves. A simile is a way of describing something by saying it is like something else. For example, the girl crept up as quietly as a mouse. We thought of lots of onomatopoeia words for water such as splash, splosh, drip and drop. Then today the children have written their own water poem using similes and they came up with some really great ones such as ‘water can be hot like a boiling kettle’ and ‘water is clear like delicate glass.’