Poetry

This Wednesday, a poet friend came to visit Year 2 at school. It was a great day and the children all really seemed to enjoy it. Consequently I gave them all a poetry book to read at home over the weekend and next week's show and tell is all going to be about poetry. They can either read a poem they have written or one that they have read. I told them today that I was going to try learn a poem to read to them. This is another thing inspired by Sarah Outen - does my life seem to revolve around her?! On the ocean she aimed to learn poetry by heart and chatting to her when she visited I was inspired to give it a go too. I decided to start easy with some children's poems that I knew well. One that I liked was 'The King's Breakfast' by A A Milne. I really like the rhythm of it as it can roll off the tongue. So while lying in bed this evening about to continue my dvd adventures, I looked over the side of my bed to where my Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems has been sitting since Sarah visited. I then did my best to learn the poem and have been recording myself on photobooth to test myself. Here is attempt number seven, you can see a couple of instances where I hesitate but it's the first one where I haven't actually said the wrong words. Let's see if I can keep practising it for Tuesday.

Phew, that has taken me a long time to try and sort. Couldn't find the video upload button, must have been one of those that took a wander during the blogger redesign, like the spell check. Why oh why I wonder? Too tired to look into that further now... But I found my answer on this blogger tips and tricks site via a google search (actually this page is the main article on the updated blogger post editor from the same blog). Turns out you can switch back to the old style of blogger under the settings menu. What an un-evolutionary thing! At least it's hopefully working now!

On a fairly unrelated note, sometime this week when I was on my laptop, I hit a wrong key when trying to do a shortcut and it enabled me to toggle between tabs - really useful thing I would like to be able to do! But I haven't been able to find how to do it again and haven't yet taken the time to search for how it's done.  27/6/10 to switch between tabs you press ctrl + tab (as opposed to cmd + tab for switching between programmes).  I did find that out a while ago, just realised I had never updated on here.