poem crisis!

[lauradora]

My 7 year (year 3) DD has to learn a poem to say out loud in class next week - any ideas/ websites/ book suggestions v welcome! she is mildly dislexic so nothing too complex...!

[Twims]

this?

[GrimmaTheNome]

Does it have to be any particular length (lines/verses) or subject?

One source might be to look on amazon for poetry books for her age and then take a peek at any 'Look Inside' ones.

[lauradora]

no all we've been told is learn a poem! she is unkeen...

[lauradora]

thanks Twims, that's just the sort of thing i was looking for, hopefully she will go for it!!!

[funnypeculiar]

How about something funny - eg Spike Milligan?

[GrimmaTheNome]

For instance Baby Sardine, the last one on this page (some of the ones above look quite nice too). IMO Twims one could be a bit hard to get the right way round

[Itsjustafleshwound]

Ogden Nash
Spike Milligan

[sassy]

The cow is of the bovine ilk.
one end is moo, the other milk.

Ogden Nash.

OR

How about Each Peach pear PLum? if you have the book, she will know the pictures and they will prompt her through the poem.

[funnypeculiar]

I love 'bump' and it's pretty short...

www.spikemilligan.co.uk/spike-milligan-poem-text.php?poem=Bump

[funnypeculiar]

Or, for something more contemporary, John Hegley?
www.johnhegley.co.uk/networds/docs/smothering.htm

[Thrifty]

everybody
verybody
erybody
rybody (pr.ryebody)
ybody (pr. why-body)
body
ody
dy (pr dye)
y (pr why)

say it fast.

or..

Falling from the window, Mertle
To the ground began to hurtle,
as we watched her, Rodney reckoned
she reached 40 feet per second!

or...

If I had know Eve, I'd have told her
of that fast descending boulder
but as she was just a stranger
it seemed so wrong to mention danger

[TigersEnglandChick]

Today I saw a little worm,
Wriggling on his belly.
Perhaps he'd like to come inside,
And see what's on the telly.

Spike Milligan

[CaptainKarvol]

I think mice / are rather nice / their tails are long / their faces small / they haven't any / chins at all ....

by Rose Fyleman, in a book called 'I like this poem', which has poems chosen by 6 to 15 year olds.

I like it

[CaptainKarvol]

there are holes in the clouds
where the rain comes in
but they're everso small
that's why rain is thin

(more Spike Milligan)

[lauradora]

ooops I loved grimmathenome's suggestion but now DD has told me it has to be about 20 lines long..

[funnypeculiar]

An Owner's Complaint

I've got a dog that's more
like a carrot than a dog.
It's hairy,
but only very slightly.
It's got no personality
to speak of,
no bark to bark of,
no head
no legs
no tail
and it's all
orange
and
crunchy.

John Hegley again

[sassy]

Each Peach pear PLum then!

[Oovavu]

whatever you choose record it onto a tape and play it over and over to help her learn it

[sassy]

Ooh good tip oovavu.

(Do I know you?)

[lauradora]

great tiip oovavu, does anyone know of a website with each peach pear plum on? we don't have the book!

[TigersEnglandChick]

I doubt it'll be online as it's probably still under copyright - a quick search just brought up places to buy the book.
Can you borrow one from a friend or the library?

[Thrifty]

My kitten won't stop talking.
She just prattles night and day.
She walks around repeating
nearly everything I say.

My kitten never says, "Meow."
She never even purrs.
She mimics me instead
in that annoying voice of hers.

She waits for me to speak,
and then she copies every word,
or begs me for a cracker,
or says, "I'm a pretty bird."

I'm not sure what to do, and so
I simply grin and bear it.
She's been this way since yesterday;
that's when she ate my parrot.

from this site

[lauradora]

thanks everyone, can't believe how many super helpful replies we got, DD thought all gt fun and now really into the idea, let's hope it lasts!!