Poetry

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  • October 23, 2011 at 9:43 pm
    petitemom
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    I have a kid who doesn’t care too much about poetry but does it anyway and one who does enjoy it. I think it would really help both of them if there was more humor in it.

    Anybody has any suggestions of where I could find funny poems.

    We have the Favorite Poems old and new book and so far found only one poem they thought was funny.

    thanks

    Stephanie

    October 23, 2011 at 10:16 pm
    Bookworm
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    Favorite Poems Old and New has an ENTIRE section of funny poems.  Almost Any Time is Laughing Time begins on page 327 and goes on to 369.  In addition there are a great many funny poems scattered throughout.  Additional poets to look up more would include Ogden Nash, Lewis Carrol, some of Rudyard Kipling, Hilaire Belloc, Edward Lear and Gelett Burgess.  Try to interest them a bit, but don’t stay in funny forever–there is so much you’d miss otherwise!  I understand distinct lack of enthusiasm, as that malady exists here too, but I pay it no mind and read to them anyway, and whether they like it or not, they’ve picked up a lot.  LOL, that even rhymed.  Anyway.  Good luck!

    October 23, 2011 at 10:40 pm
    Sara B.
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    We, too, have found lots of funny poems throughout Favorite Poems.  Sometimes the kids don’t particularly *want* to listen to it, but I make them, and they do end up liking many of the poems.  Sometimes I take a poem that’s supposed to be funny, and I stand up in front of them and do plenty of facial expressions and voice inflections.  Sometimes it gets downright hilarious!  🙂  There was one we read, “To My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months” by Thomas Hood, that reminded us of my toddler, and the way I read it, we were all doubled-over in laughter.

    Hope these suggestions help!

    October 23, 2011 at 11:00 pm
    petitemom
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    Thanks, didn’t even realize there was a funny section! I actually have them memorize them (and draw a picture) so they do need to be short as well. I’ll look up those authors at the library…

    October 23, 2011 at 11:32 pm
    Bookworm
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    You might sometimes JUST read them.  It might help to have some exposure to the poetry that doesn’t have assignments afterwards.  My kids would have problems if I had them memorize them all since I read three or four (or a longer one or part of one) a day!  LOL

    October 24, 2011 at 1:08 am
    Michelle Kelly
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    Developing Linguistic Patterns through Poetry Memorization by: Andrew Pudewa! We’ve been working through this for 2 years and my children love the poems. So much humor, and morally fine content.

    October 24, 2011 at 1:34 am
    Sara B.
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    I would agree with Bookworm.  Maybe I should have them memorize more often, but I rarely assign a poem to memorize.  I read a few a day to them, like Bookworm does.  I thought CM said no more than 1 a week (or a month?) to memorize?  But to read poetry every day?  Someone correct me if I’m wrong.  🙂

    October 24, 2011 at 11:53 am
    Gem
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    I posted a while back about a poetry book that we havve been enjoying – Runny Babbit by Shel Silverstein.  We find the poems very funny and they have the kind of wordplay that the more you read them, the funnier they get.  We do not memorize them, just read for enjoyment, and I have my dd11 read a selection aloud a couple of times a week – they are challenging!

    Here is a link to the Runny Babbit thread.

    October 24, 2011 at 2:00 pm
    4myboys
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    You didn’t mention ages, but Shel Silverstien (A Light int the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Runny Babbit, etc.) is a favourite with my 7 and 10 year old, as well as Dennis Lee.  They both write some very silly funny poems that are fun to memorize.

    October 24, 2011 at 8:19 pm
    Michelle Kelly
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    My children enjoy Shel Silverstien as well! And have many memorized. It is common at dinner for children to break out in poetry recitations and many of those poems are Silverstien. Recently my dh was home on rotation and heard a poem recited that he assumed was Silverstien, but it was The Duke of Plaza Toro by W.S. Gilbert. Funny stuff 🙂

    October 25, 2011 at 12:00 am
    petitemom
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    wow thanks so much everyone, I am glad I asked this here.

    It is for a 8 and 10 years old so I guess those suggestions should work.

    It also made me think that I should rotate between memorization and reading to them. I’m thinking to have them write poems too on the week they do not have to memorize.

    Need to see if my library has some of these…

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