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Here is a great example of a reversible poem to read to your kids before reading this book. It might even change their mind about bad days!

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Limericks have 5 lines. The last words of lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme. The last words of 3 and 4 rhyme. There are stressed and unstressed syllables. Here are some fun examples to read as a class and some activities to go along with limericks.

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Limericks can be very funny, and children will enjoy reading them and creating their own in the classroom.

Here are some examples of limericks which were kindly contributed by other teachers.

An artistic male cat called Greebo,
To an evening class he decided to go.
The teacher said, "That's not right
Your page is all white!"
Greebs said, "It is a polar bear in the snow."

I once had a blind date with Cilla.
I took her to watch Aston Villa.
She sang to the crowd
And she sang very loud
And that's why they threatened to kill 'er.

There was an old man from Milan,
Whose limericks never would scan.
When told this was so,
He said, 'yes, I know.
'But I always try to get as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can.'

1) Ask the children to investigate the structure of a limerick. How many lines does a limerick have? How many syllables are there in each line? What is the rhythm of the limerick like? What is the pattern of rhyming in the limerick?

2) When the children are familiar with the structure of limericks, they could create some of their own. Depending on their age and ability, you might want to provide some starters for them, for example...

There once was a young man called Pete...

There once was a girl from Peru...

You could also provide sets of rhyming words for the children to use in their poems, for example...

Mark, dark, park, spark, lark, bark....

Wales, tales, sales, scales, nails, gales, males, quails, rails...

3) When the children have created their limericks, they could jumble up the lines, and ask their friends to rearrange the limerick back to the correct order (developing their sequencing skills).

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Limericks can be very funny, and children will enjoy reading them and creating their own in the classroom. Here are some examples of limericks which were kindly contributed by other teachers. An artistic male cat called Greebo, To an evening class he decided to go.

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Here, your students can create their own acrostic poems.