• Apr. 27, 2009
Limericks!
I borrowed a book from the library called A Child Introduction to Poetry by Michael Driscoll. From that book we learned a little about the history of limericks and how to make them. There was also several example limericks given. Some are quite funny!
Anyway, I chose to do limericks today because we've never really delved into writing poetry before and I thought these might be simple and fun. I was right! Taylor was not too enthused at first, until she read some of the samples. The her creative juices got flowing. Here's a picture of her very first limerick.
It says:
There once was a man with a very large belly.
Who had a wife whose name was Telly.
Telly tried to make the belly skinny.
She gave up and gave him a penny.
So instead, he got sticky with jelly.
Cute, isn't it? In case your wondering, the big purple blob is his big belly smeared with grape jelly and the gray things surrounding it are his arms which must wrap the belly in order to hold it up.
Then I made one up. Please don't laugh at my picture.
Here is the other limerick Taylor wrote. She didn't make a notebooking page for this one.
There was a cat. His name is Kitty.
But I had a dog. He bit the kitty.
The kitty cried for help.
The dog let out a yelp.
Then on the dog I had pity.
