Poetry Recitation (6/7)

Fourth Grade here at Lincoln was charged to learn poetry and recite it for an assembly. So my students and I searched in books and on the internet some poetry we all liked. We spent a lot of time making sure it was memorized and adding some drama. And when the day came I think I was more nervous than they were. I had to welcome everybody to the assembly and introduce the students and their poems. Then the students did their thing. And they were great! Some of the language escaped the little kids, but most thought the poems and their staging were hilarious. Actually, I am kind of proud. We got loads of compliments.

I have to include one of the poems for you. It was hard to pick, they were all so funny! (“How to Torture Your Teacher” by Bruce Lansky, “The Toad and the Kangaroo” by Shel Silverstein, “Lucky Trade” by Matthew L. Fredericks, just to name a few.) But this is the one I chose -- “Mirror, Mirror, O’er the Sink” by Kimberly Norman performed by two children, one on a desk acting the part of a dog, the other next to it as the mirror.

Dog: “Mirror, mirror, o’er the sink,
Tell me what you really think.
Do my lovely eyes of brown
Dazzle like a diamond crown?
Is my hair of gleaming gold
Beautiful, as I am told?”
Quoth the mirror,
Mirror: “Yes, it is true.
All these things are said of you.
Still, I beg you, back away.
Clearly, you’ve not flossed today.
Kibble breath has made me fog.
Off the sink you stupid dog!”