Calligrams

We have been looking at calligrams and making our own. Calligrams are poems that use either the letters from the word to make a picture of the word or a font that looks like the word. Although calligrams are a type of poetry most of our class think they are more art than poetry!

We particularly liked these calligrams

Here are our calligrams:

Calligrams

We are learning about shape poems in literacy. Last week we looked at calligrams.

This is a wonderful site where the letters of each animal's name move into the shape of the animal:
http://www.bemboszoo.com/Bembo.swf