Today I want to share a fun poem from Shel Silverstein about taking risks and having fun!
What is something really fun you got to do this week? What details would you need to draw in a picture of it? How would you tell it as a story to me if we were sharing in Community Circle? How did you feel when you got to be silly?
On Tuesday my uncle retired from his job as Assistant Fire Chief of West Vancouver, after over 31 years of service. We drove to his house and sat in his carport, eating cupcakes and sitting far away from one another. Even though I couldn’t hug him, I was still able to tell him that I am so proud of him. Here is a video of what we all looked like (my uncle, me, my brother, and my two cousins)(there is no sound to the video), bundled up and playing with balloons! If I wrote a poem about my day, I might say:
Carport Retirement Party!
My brother is six feet and one inch tall
Which doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, at all
Until all of a sudden
I can’t even hug him
And it makes me feel far away.
We’re all here in the driveway
Celebrating a really BIG day
In kind of an unexpected and funny way.
I’m so proud of my uncle and all he has done
And now he is retired he will have lots of fun!
Even though I’m really sad I can’t hug him
He knows how much we all love him
And that we’ll just celebrate again a SECOND TIME
– Without a rhyme – so we can hug and…
…maybe still play with balloons!
Think about something YOU would share about your week, and come up with a way of telling your story! Could you act it out with a stuffed animal? Could you create a scene out of Lego? Could you draw it? Think of a way to tell someone about something fun and silly without writing it down using words. Or by writing down your words in a different way? In my poem, I used rhymes and played with making words BIG or sideways to make them stand out. How could you make special words in your story stand out? Can you point out a way special words stand out in a book you are reading? Show someone in your house, or a favourite stuffed animal or toy and get a little silly with it!