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Happy Limerick Day
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 [...]
What’s another word for Synonym?
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 [...]
Student Goals
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 [...]
Graduation Songs
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, [...]
Learn to Juggle
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 [...]