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
Mrs McNamara has come up with a good idea. She has used student photos to illustrate students’ goals for the rest of the year. These have been presented in the “motivational poster” style though, using FD’s Flickr Toys. One of the toys is a motivational poster creator – simply upload the photo, type in a few bits of text and it’s ready to download.
It’s getting to that time of the year when a lot of schools are trying to find a suitable graduation song to play or for the kids to sing. Here are some that have been suggested on a listserve I belong to:
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), by Greenday
Light Surrounding Me, by Evermore
We Are Family, by ??
Opportunity, by Pete Murray
Lean on Me, by ??
We’re all in this together, from High School Musical
Graduation Song, by Vitamin C
Morning has Broken, by Cat Stephens
Rise Up, by ??
You Raise Me Up, by Westlife
Shine, by Shannon Noll
Waiting on the world to change, by John Mayer
Together we are one, by Delta Goodrem
I’m on my way, by The Proclaimers
Don’t Worry, Be Happy. by Bobby McFerrin
We All Stand Together, by Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus
Hero, by Mariah Carey
Shine, by ??
We Are The Champions, by Queen
If you know who the performers are for any of these songs, please let me know so I can fill in the blanks. 😀
Circus Arts has been a fairly major initiative within the Western NSW Region of the NSW DET, originally starting out at Dubbo West Public School as early as 1991. Since then it has grown with many other schools becoming involved. I just came across this video demonstrating how to juggle, over at Sclipo.com. Further information can also be found at JugglingIsASnap.org.