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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

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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.

Mrs McNamara has published it on SlideShare – You can view it here or download from here.

This tool could also be used to illustrate classroom rules, for example.

I’ve contemplated using the Magazine Cover Creator as a simple but unique idea for a stall at a fete.

Any other ideas???? Leave them in the comments below…..

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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:

1. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), by Greenday
2. Light Surrounding Me, by Evermore
3. We Are Family, by ??
4. Opportunity, by Pete Murray
5. Lean on Me, by ??
6. We’re all in this together, from High School Musical
7. Graduation Song, by Vitamin C
8. Morning has Broken, by Cat Stephens
9. Rise Up, by ??
10. You Raise Me Up, by Westlife
11. Shine, by Shannon Noll
12. Waiting on the world to change, by John Mayer
13. Together we are one, by Delta Goodrem
14. I’m on my way, by The Proclaimers
15. Don’t Worry, Be Happy. by Bobby McFerrin
16. We All Stand Together, by Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus
17. Hero, by Mariah Carey
18. Shine, by ??
19. 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. 😀

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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.