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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is doing a unique and fun writing project on her blog, The Poem Farm. My students are huge fans. We have been checking in daily to see the new poem, to sing all the match up songs possible, count syllables, then make a guess. We have recorded our guesses on Soundcloud using my iPhone.
My students have gotten good at this. They are not in the least bit shy about singing. This week was mostly filled with more state testing. So when testing was over, and we finally had uninterrupted time together, they insisted on visiting The Poem Farm. We read Amy’s poem Memories and after quite a few fails, we decided it was the tune of “London Bridge is Falling Down.”
Writing workshop became a frenzy of experimenting with different songs, counting syllables, and writing original poems to the tunes. I was particularly fond of Emily’s because I helped her with it. She was writing about stinky feet. We googled a picture of a labeled shoe to get the proper shoe vocabulary. I talked to her about how she could personify eyelets. Finding rhymes was a challenge, too. (Rhymezone.com helped) I kept trying to describe that reeking of feet as steam. She came up with word vapor. So we made a near rhyme with vapor and garbage collector. It worked. Read the poem first to see if you can guess the tune, then listen to the Soundcloud. Thank you, Amy VanDerwater for inspiring such creativity and fun.
Do your shoes smell bad?
Do your laces stink a tad?
Can the eyelets see the dirt?
If they can, they may avert.
Does the footbed reek and vapor
like the garbage can collector?
Do your shoes smell bad?by Emily
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