Poem - The kite
The Kite
All of us like to fly kites. Have you ever tried to fly one? Read this poem about a kite as it flies in the sky.
How bright on the blue Is a kite when it’s new!
With a dive and a dip
It snaps its tail
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
As over tides
Of wind it rides,
Climbs to the crest
Of a gust and pulls,
Then seems to rest
As wind falls.
When string goes slack
You wind it back
And run until
A new breeze blows
And its wings fill
And up it goes!
How bright on the blue Is a kite when it’s new!
But a raggeder thing
You never will see
When it flaps on a string
In the top of a tree.
WORKING WITH THE POEM
1. List out the action words in the poem. dive, dip, snaps, ___________ ___________ ___________
Find out the meanings of these words.
2. Read these lines from the poem:
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
The movement of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a sail. This is called a simile. Can you suggest what or who the following actions may be compared to?
He runs like ________________________
He eats like ________________________
She sings like ________________________
It shines like ________________________
It flies like ________________________
3. Try to make a kite with your friends. Collect the things required such as colour paper/newspaper, thread, glue, a thin stick that can be bent. After making the kite see if you can fly it.
