March 4, 2012

• Chalk & Children  

  Because it was Dr. Seuss’ birthday this past week, I selected a poem that was a little more Seussical in nature for us to do.  We work off the AmbleSide Online Poetry selections, but there was a good one in the bunch for us to chalk up today!

  
  Eletelephony
  Laura E. Richards
  
  Once there was an elephant
  Who tried to use the telephant… 
  No, no!  I mean an elephone
  Who tried to use the telephone.
  
  ((Dear me! I am not certain, quite
  That even now I’ve got it right!))

  However it was, he got his trunk
  Entangled in the telephunk;
  The more he tried to get it free,
  The louder buzzed the telephee…  

  ((I fear I’d better drop the song
  Of elephop and telephong!!!))
  
  NoTe:  Which is actually quite a difficult undertaking, drawing an elephant on the telephone!  The kids loved the poem (I think I read it six times), and they’d just come in from playing in the snow.
  
  ((IT SNOWED AGAIN!!  YES!))
  
  I’d made coffee with white chocolate caramel creamer, and we all sat down to figure it out.  Lydia had a phone mix-up with the elephant, Ethan had a caller/callee thing going on, Isaac did a Neo-phant on his Matrix phone, and Brian went the Theo LeSieg route (a la ‘Cat in the hat’… would that make his elephant Horton?).  I don’t want to talk about my elecord… it was an experiment.  I’m not sure if it worked or not.

  

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