10.23.2010

Poetry and More

Friday morning Roo’s class had their Poetry Cafe. Each of the students had to memorize a poem and recite it. I was really impressed with how well they all did.

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Roo chose a poem by Shel Silverstein from the Runny Babbit book.

The And-Baid Problem

Runny Babbit tut his cail,

So Goctor Doose came by.

He put an And-Baid on the cut,

And Runny cegan to bry.

Goc Doose said, “hey, that hidn’t durt--

I put it on sentle and goft.”

Said Runny, “I’m thinking ‘bout the time

Your’re going to pull it off.”

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She gets so nervous beforehand, but then she gets up and just does a great job.

After we had snacks each table had the opportunity to write a haiku. I am not a poet…but haiku’s don’t even rhyme. What’s the deal with that? Here is the little ditty the group I was in came up with:

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We all signed the bottom of the poster and I was so impressed with Ham’s ability to write his name…

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totally backwards, from right to left. And you know I had to be impressed to actually share his real name. So be impressed with his writing abilities and then forget it. thanks…

Afterwards I dropped LaLa off at her class. This week she was the Star Student so I had to get a picture of her with her poster.

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She is just so dang cute!

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I sure love my sweet girlies!

5 comments:

  1. When Jakob was in 4th grade, he study about poetry as well. I was helping out in class that week, and his Teacher wanted me to explain Haiku to a a group of kids. I had to google on my iphone, to find out what a Haiku was...
    Cute pictures..

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  2. This is how "awesome" I am. I seriously stared at Hams name spelled backwards, etc. for a couple of minutes. Because I could NOT make it say HAM. I've just been completely taken in by your pseudo names for them, I forgot they have "real" ones. That was funny.

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  3. I don't get the Haiku thing either.

    Cute kiddos! Love the poem she chose.

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  4. How Fun!!!
    Wish you were closer to us so we could see your kidlets do all these cool things.

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