Week 5: 3rd/4th Grade Read Aloud, There Was an Old Man, A Limerick by Edward Lear from Poetry for Young People, Edited by Edward Mendelson

Word of the Week 3rd/4th Grade:  

LIMERICK, definition from Dictionary.com:

noun

a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. (example below)

Quote of the Week:

"There was an old person of Ware, Who rode on the back of a bear: When they asked,'Does it trot?' He said,'Certainly not! He's a Moppsikon Floppsikon bear.'"

By Edward Lear, 1872

From: More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc. "100 Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes"