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Poetry Break 4

A less familiar Mother Goose Poem 

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Available from, http://www.iit.edu/~phillips/personal/liturgy/oldwoman.html . Accessed June 8, 2005

There Was  An Old Women Tossed Up In A Basket

By Mother Goose

There was an old woman tossed up in a basket

Ninety-nine times as high as the moon;

And what she did there, I couldn’t but ask it,

For in her hand she carried a broom.

“Old woman, old woman, old woman,"said I,

“What are you doing up there so high?”

“I’m sweeping the cobwebs out of the sky

And you can come with me, by and by."
 Mother Goose Remembers. By Clare Beaton. Barefoot Books, 2000.

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Introduction

 

I have read many Mother Goose poems but have never heard of this one. It would be a great opening poem to introduce  children to  the various types of Mother Goose poems. While looking through various poem books I found a couple different versions of this poem.

 

Extension

Explain to children that there are many Mother Goose Poems that have been written. Gather a variety of books with Mother Goose poems. Allow the children to select one poem and see if they can find a different version of it in a different book. Make a Venn diagram and compare same and different. The children can make an anthology of poems and add the Mother Goose poem to their collection. Make sure they illustrate it.  For older children this is a good poem to introduce the Quatrain pattern ABAB.

 

Poetry Break 5

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