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I smiled when I marked the spelling sheet today… the things kids write.

My nan is a crazy driver and my nan likes sleeping and chocolate and my pop is a slow driver. My nan goes to the pub all the time.

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Today is Limerick Day. It celebrates the birthday of Edward Lear (1812 – 1888). Lear made limericks popular in his 1846 publication “A Book of Nonsense”

What is a limerick?

A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet.

A couplet is a two-line rhymed poem and a triplet is a three-line.

What are the typical characteristics of Limericks?

• Limericks are a funny and nonsense poem.
• They have five lines.
• They have a rhyme scheme of A, A, B, B, A (lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme; lines 3 and 4 rhyme).
• The syllabification is 8, 8, 5, 5, 8.

Did you know? Limerick is also a large city in Ireland.

What a limerick is in a crunch
Is a bit like a loony’s light lunch
Though it briefly delights
It’s just four nutty bites
Swallowed down with a ludicrous punch

By Graham Lester

Other Links:

• Teaching Ideas
• How to write a Limerick by Bruce Lansky
• Edward Lear’s Nonsense Work
• Write an instant limerick (online form)
• A collection of limericks for kids
• Teacher Planet Limerick Day Theme Page

Do you have a favourite Limerick? Share it with us in the comments below.

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Can you think of one?? I haven’t been able to. Even a search at Synonym.com brought back the result:

Sorry, I could not find synonyms for ’synonym’

I found some websites that deal with Synonyms though:

• Teacher’s Clubhouse – Grammar Skills
• A lesson on synonyms for Kindergarten
• EdHelper worksheets on Synonyms

I did also find the humourous t-shirts too, if you’re that way inclined. They’re available over at Zazzle.com