Down the Back of the Chair by Mahutonga Matariki, credit to Margaret Mahy

 Down the Back of the Chair!

Today we read “Down the Back of the Chair” by Margaret Mahy. We all really enjoyed it! We discussed what poetic devices she had used and, using our creativity, wrote verses in small groups to add to her book. It’s such a shame we didn’t have time to draw pictures to represent our poetry!

Our success criteria were to:

• Write a verse of at least 4 lines;
• One line must have alliteration
• Another must have rhyme
• The other can include either more of these or another poetic device like assonance, personification or repetition                                                                       
• The last line must end with “down the back of the chair.”

Here's what we imagined finding DOWN THE BACK OF THE CHAIR...

A digger a dog an army squad.

A pie a guy and a mexican fly.

A figger a trigger a critter's ipod.

A tie some die the toy that crys.

Down the back of the cair.

[By Joel.S, Flynn.M, Alex.G and Rylan.B]                 

Down the back of the chair,

We found rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,

A pint of beer,

A smelly sock,

A weird rock.

A mouldy fish down from the dock.

Down the back of the chair.

Down the back of the chair,

We found something covered in hair,

Could it be a lollypop?

Maybe it was,

Uncle louie’s old teddy bear?

 But no it was a five million dollar bill.

A nintendo gameboy,

My bird called Roy,

Down the back of the chair.

We found lots of cash

Freezer too such a fortune enough for year supply of steak and cheese pie

We just pull things out there’s nothing to miss

Oh that reminds me last night i found a fish

A lollypop Some liqour A pice of likrish

Down the back of the chair

A cook A crook A book

Down the back of the chair

A rocket A builder a pocket full of glee

Down the back of the chair

Have you been down this marvelous chair it

Will make you rich

[by Thomas Ben blake and Lucas]

Down the back of the chair.

I found a bottle of beer,

down the back of the chair

there was no one there.

apart from Rudolph, the rednose reindeer

Down the back of the chair.

I found a book and gave it a look

Then Captain Hook, flew out of the book

Down the back of the chair

There was a snake who felt an earthquake

Down the back  of the chair.

[Ben B, Theo, Oscar and Max]

A flame, a crane and a paper plane

A book of alliterations and a box of medications,

Down the back of the chair.

A mat, a Mona Lisa and a minecraft creeper,

A bottle, a bee and a balancing tree

Down the back of the chair!

[By Stephanie, Sylvie and Sophia]

My pea’s, my pins, my edible grins down the back of the chair.

My hoop ,my loop,my poop down the back of the chair.

My peas, my wees, my mouldy cheese down the back of the chair.

A bird, a nerd, a turd down the back of the chair.

My cat in a flat, on a mat, being slack down the back of the chair.

[By Greer T ,Greer W , Milla]

Donald Trump’s walls of stone.

Your mum playing the xylophone.

An alien clone, a traffic cone.

Down the back of the chair.

A bat that’s fat.

A cat with a rat.

Old grannies mat.

Down the back of the chair.

A dinosaur, the president’s law.

A boar, A door, A lion’s snore.

Ugly witches magic core.

Down the back of the chair.

A dandelion, a baby crying

An airplane that’s barely flying

A meteor whose relieved and sighing

Down the back of the chair

A sea sick chicken

A dog thatś licken

A bat  that's clik en

Down the back of the chair

A log a hog that lived in a bog a guy named bob

All of this and more!

Down the back of the chair

                                                           

                                              A dragon's claw,

                                           A aniln door,

A boar with an apple cour

Down the back of the chair

                                          

                            A spark some bark from a cinnamon tree

                                                      A Santa ford

The singer Lorde

A cheetah called bored

 Down the back of the chair.

A cord,

A shall that belongs to nan

Down the back of the chair                             

                                                  

McDonald’s chips

Some pink tulips

Acrobat’s flips

Down the back of the chair

A pig a wig  down the back of the big old chair!                           

  A antelope,

A stot...

[By Charlie, Elliot and Bella]

                                                           

Some crumbs,buns and a Drum.

A peer of socks a little box .

A strawberry straw.

A cup a cop.

And a red ruler eating red rocks down the back of the chair.

[By Daisy,Orla and Maddie!]

A dragon having a snooze in a race that we lose

A car having a grump because there was a bump on its rump

A rocket in space landed in my face

Down the back of the chair

[By Caitlyn, Alba and Charlotte]

I found a pair of underwear under the chair

What else could I find?

I found a clown, a town and a big frown

I found a bear bringing beer and he jumped back

Down the back of the chair

[By Parker, Cody and Haare]