Our current class topic in English is poetry and finding out about different poetry styles. One fun activity was for us to enter a poetry writing competition on an animal theme. What better way to boost our confidence and create a buzz than to get close up and personal with some snails to study and write a poem about. We found out what snails look like, how snails move, how they breathe and what they eat. We found out what animals eat snails and even learned that humans eat snails too! Yuk, we weren’t tempted to try that for our afternoon snack. We used all the information about snails to write an Acrostic Poem for the competition and we were delighted with how well they turned out. We even had time to carry out some snail art work. Fingers crossed that one of our poems will be a winner!