Garden Poetry 3 – Limmericks - 4-H Africa Knowledge Center.

Lesson Recommendations
4. Ask students to write their own limerick poem about the garden.
• Remind students to use descriptive language to make their poems
more vibrant. Use this as an opportunity to present or review some
grammar tips. For example, adjectives describe nouns; adverbs
describe a verb, an adjective, or another adverb and often end in “ly.”
• Have students find a semi-solitary place near the garden where they
can relax, observe, and write.
5. Have students share their limerick with groups of students or the entire
class.
Alternate Activities:
1. Have students recite or perform these limericks at an educational event.
2. Collect the students’ poems to make a book for the school library.
3. Have students translate these limericks into a different language.
4. Have students incorporate some words from another language into the
limericks.
Evaluation:
Poem creation.
Discussion and participation in the activity.
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