… alternately titled, “Learning from Lucy”, this post is about an awesome Monday 😀 , specifically the third period of school today which saw me in Class 6, reading Mary Howitt’s “The Spider and the Fly” – a personal favourite, when I decided to introduce the learner group to rhyme scheme.
So, class six, and I did some rhyming words after which I put up four nonsense lines, kept shuffling them, and putting the “a” and “b”, according to which ever line they happened to be in- the group was getting into the act 🙂 Finally, we arrived at this aabb stanza, as given in the picture – an absolutely absurd, nonsensical four liner, when Lucy’s clear tones piped up from the second last row of the class!
Teacher, if we add one more line we would have a limmerick. Astounded (for I KNOW even a learner from the higher classes would NOT be able to identify this form of verse!), I asked her what it was, to which she said, very casually, a silly verse which has five lines, and the first two lines rhymed, the next two rhymed, and the last line rhymed with the first two. I gaped, I did; seriously- and asked her to make it one, by suggesting the last line! The class gaped along with me- this sweet, absolutely laid-back, earnest, young lady sure had us saluting her knowledge! Hers is the last line, and hers is the Limmerick! (I know, I know, I have misspelt the darn word, but shall let it be… just to let you know, I am still a learner 😀 )
This post is incomplete without adding a line about the Queen of the Limmerick – Gulshan, whose comments on a few blogs here are all in the said form 🙂 She manages to churn ’em out magically, at the drop of a hat 🙂 🙂 Gulshan, meet Lucy, who I hope is going to follow in your creative footsteps!
And kudos to Lucy’s parents too – for having introduced their daughter to the wonder of the language and its forms! This is what I have learnt today- that each day I shall find magic, and be amazed 🙂 – Open-mouthed, and with utter glee 🙂
What did you learn today?
This part of the #MicroblogMondays series, about which you can read up more, when you click on the picture below 🙂
10 November, 2014
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November 10, 2014 at 11:43 pm
Hope the girl rescued the goat, coat and all from the moat 🙂 Fun class you run, Usha miss 🙂 Can see it on the student’s face.
I once went to class
With a half empty glass
Miss told I wasn’t done
She filled it with fun
And told me to pass
🙄
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November 10, 2014 at 11:54 pm
Vinay!!! Thank you! Yes indeed, I have the most amount of fun, I think, sometimes 😀 Lucky me 🙂 To do so 🙂
And whattay meaningful, fun limerick that is 🙂 Thank you for that too!
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November 11, 2014 at 12:19 am
The name Lucy, and I simply had to hurry over! Not my Luci, but nevertheless a post about a very interesting little Lucy 🙂
She sure seems another Gulshan in the making! 😀
Hurried over for Luci
Instead found Lucy
Whose teacher gasped
Her hand clasped
When she found limericks in Lucy’s hands were putty
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November 11, 2014 at 12:21 am
hands*
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April 5, 2015 at 7:50 am
Shail! Awww… but then the spell fiend that I am, I would have spelt your darling Royal Highness as Luci 😀
Thank you for that delightful limerick too!
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November 11, 2014 at 12:35 am
Little Lucy is oh so clever
In Usha’s class she caused a tremor
Her sense of rhyme
Is quite divine
And thank you for tagging me so –’tis truly an honor!
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April 5, 2015 at 7:49 am
Gushan, 🙂 there was no way a limerick post here was getting done without honourable mention of YOU 🙂 Thank you!
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November 11, 2014 at 8:01 am
She looks so happy 😀
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April 5, 2015 at 7:52 am
She always looks happy! One of the most pleasant children in class; in fact that class itself is one of the best in terms of learner-teacher interaction and energy 🙂 I wonder if I’d be so lucky as to have her in my class again the next year 🙂 We form a mutual admiration society of two I think 😀 Without me being partial, let me add, hastily!
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November 11, 2014 at 1:04 pm
Totally awed…as I struggle with such stuff !!
WTG Lucy girl…you made your teacher proud 😀
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April 5, 2015 at 7:53 am
Uma, she’s a natural! And yes, she did do me proud! Thank you! Hugs!
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November 11, 2014 at 4:10 pm
Wow! Hats off to the young lady and to her teacher! 😀
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April 5, 2015 at 7:53 am
Thank you Debo, on her behalf and mine as well 🙂
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November 11, 2014 at 5:22 pm
excellente’ .. way to gooooooooooo little one
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April 5, 2015 at 7:54 am
Bikramjit, thank you, on her behalf!
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November 11, 2014 at 11:19 pm
Beautiful post, beautiful class and the beautiful girl , loved all about this post 🙂
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April 5, 2015 at 7:58 am
Thank you freakyveggie (I wish Ihad a name to go by, though 😀 ) for those beautiful words too, for the class and and the little girl, and the post 🙂
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November 12, 2014 at 2:09 am
Very smart girl. I wanted to write my comment in limerick form, but petered out of creativity 🙂
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April 5, 2015 at 7:59 am
Mel, thank you! Limericks ain’t easy at all, I do know that!
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November 23, 2014 at 10:12 pm
Wow…it isn’t everyday you come across such a smart girl, especially a sixth-grader who appreciates what a limerick is. I didn’t know much about it myself. Till now, that is. 🙂 I salute you, Lucy!
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April 5, 2015 at 8:00 am
Malavika, thank you, on her behalf! I wonder if you did go over and meet her personally! I’m sure you’d have been charmed!
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November 19, 2016 at 12:45 am
Where, and how, is Lucy now, by the way
In Class 8 and into her teens, well on her way
If you meet her, do say, “Hi!”
Really hope she soars sky-high
And thank you again, Usha, you made my day!
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