Help Yr3 DD find/choose a funny or (easy) Shakespeare poem for recital please!!

[Sugarbeach]

DD needs to pick a poem to perform, actually this is set as homework for the whole class, not being particularly literal myself we need some help finding a suitable poem.....She wants something either funny or a Shakespeare sonnet.....thing is, I've googled already and I don't see the "performance potential" in many of them and the Shakespeare ones seems a bit hard for an 8 yo....but maybe I just need inspiration and suggestions.

Please help!

[DeWe]

"When daddy fell into the pond" is great to perform. www.poemhunter.com/poem/daddy-fell-into-the-pond/

"Lion and Albert" or "Three ha'pence" a foot" (Noah's ark) from Stanley Holloway monologues are very funny. I can still receit them from when I leant them at her age. There's also a Battle of Hastings one which I can't remember so well.

[Sugarbeach]

Thanks DeWe...When daddy fell into the pond now shortlisted.

[CecilyP]

If you google Hilaire Belloc you will be able to find a number of comic poems that may be suitable. I think Shakespeare's sonnets would probably go over the head of most 8-year-olds.

[Theas18]

This one!


A baby Sardine
Saw her first submarine:
She was scared and watched through a peephole.
'Oh come, come, come,'
Said the Sardine's mum,
'It's only a tin full of people.'
Spike Milligan

[superbagpuss]

the only Shakespeare one I can think of is 'all the worlds a stage' , he can act out the stages as he recites it

[Heifer]

My DD has just learn The Witches, by Shakespeare. Loved it. I've just cut and pasted but the last 2 lines are missing from her poem book..

Song of the Witches
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

[LifeIsBetterInFlipFlops]

One fine day
In the middle of the night,
Two dead men
Got up to fight.
Back to back
They faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other.

[KathySeldon]

Y3 DD just did "I'd love to be a Fairy's Child" by Robert Graves if that's any help?? Got top marks for 'suitability of poem'. ()

[sixp]

My DS, same age, loves From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[sicutlilium]

What about Ariel's song from The Tempest?

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them ? Ding-dong, bell.