Oral Language Festival

Blythe participated again this year in the Oral Language Festival.  Mrs. Miller, her teacher, runs the festival, and Blythe has been part of it now for three years.  Her class put together a video about how to properly perform.  Some of her classmates were very silly.  Blythe chose a Shel Silverstein poem again, as they are always funny and rhyme, so they aren't too hard to memorize.  This year she recited "Ladies First!"  As a result, she was first on the program.  

Here is her report:  

I was scared since I was the first one.  It was also scary because when you're the first person, everybody is looking at you and thinking, "Wow! What's she going to do?"  By the end, they aren't as interested, so it was scary to be first.  It was fun putting together the show we watched before it started because when Mrs. Miller was trying to figure it out on her new computer with new technology, she made mistakes.  We couldn't hear people only the music in the background, but she figured it out.  And that's why I liked it.

Blythe performed confidently, remembered all the words, and started the evening off with a bang.  We really enjoy watching her pluck and poise as she is the center of attention.

 

Ladies First

Pamela Purse yelled, 'Ladies first,'
Pushing in front of the ice cream line.
Pamela Purse yelled, 'Ladies first,'
Grabbing the ketchup at dinnertime.
Climbing on the morning bus
She'd shove right by all of us
And there'd be a tiff or a fight or a fuss
When Pamela Purse yelled, 'Ladies first.'

Pamela Purse screamed, 'Ladies first,'
When we went off on our jungle trip.
Pamela Purse said her thirst was worse
And guzzled our water, every sip.
And when we got grabbed by that wild savage band,
Who tied us together and made us all stand
In a long line in front of the King of the land-
A cannibal known as Fry-'Em-Up Dan,
Who sat on his throne in a bib so grand
With a lick of his lips and a fork in his hand,
As he tried to decide who'd be first in the pan-
From back of the line, in that shrill voice of hers,
Pamela Purse yelled, 'Ladies first.'