1. Oratory: I've sent a letter home and here is the information as well.
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Grades: One, Two, Three and Four
Dear Parents:
Hillmond School will be hosting Oratory again this year for Grades One to Three. Marshall School and Onion Lake will be coming to our Oratory this year. Oratory is an excellent opportunity for the students to learn to memorize a poem and to speak in public!
Class Poem
We will be presenting a class choral poem called, “Nobody Knows Where Our Bus Driver Goes”. I will send a copy home next week to practice. I want to learn the whole poem with the students first.
Individual Poems
Grade ones also present an individual oratory. Please email or send a paper copy of the poem including author by Monday, April 16. The individual poem is usually quite short – less than 10 lines. I have listed a few web sites you can check out to see if there is a poem that your child would be interested in presenting. They will need your help to select a poem at home and to practice it at home. We are not able to practice individual poems at school often but I will occasionally ask the students to recite their poems and help them. Most of the practice will need to be done at home.
Selecting a poem
Choose a poem that your child really likes. Children at this age like humorous poems but please make sure it is appropriate (humorous but not rude). It should be short with an easy rhythm to recite and remember. Your child can use actions and lots of expression but cannot use props.
Another option, the many students have done, is writing their own original poem. Your child can sit down with you, think of a subject they like (hockey, the beach, my brother, etc) and write a poem with you. It doesn’t need to be a rhyming poem.
Preliminary Competition
This year there will be a preliminary competition within our school for each grade. Then the 3 best poem presentations from each grade with compete Grade One’s from Marshall and Onion Lake.
I would like the students to have a poem selected by next Monday,April 16.
If you have any questions or need help finding a poem, please call me.
Thank you,
Mrs. Burzynski
Websites:
www.barkingspiderpoetry.com
www.robertpottle.co
or Google: Children’s poetry for many other possibilities. Children’s books and magazines (like Chickadee) are also good sources
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