Harold Hill Poetry Recital - Homework Excuses

We have been delighted with the way in which the children have been completing their nightly homework tasks.

• 15mins reading
• 15mins spelling
• 15mins times tables

An incredible range of projects have been bought in so far including the first submissions as part of the Broadford Learning Challenges. However we still wanted to share the poetry performed by our Year 3 children as part of the Harold Hill Poetry Recital. 

Could you learn this poem of by heart?

Would you be able to perform it in front of an audience?

Are there any other poems by Kenn Nesbitt?

Homework Excuses

I started on my homework
but my pen ran out of ink.
My hamster ate my homework.
My computer's on the blink.

I accidentally dropped it
in the soup my mom was cooking.
My brother flushed it down the toilet
when I wasn't looking.

My mother ran my homework
through the washer and the dryer.
An airplane crashed into our house.
My homework caught on fire.

Tornadoes blew my notes away.
Volcanoes struck our town.
My notes were taken hostage
by an evil killer clown.

Some aliens abducted me.
I had a shark attack.
A pirate swiped my homework
and refused to give it back.

I worked on these excuses
so darned long my teacher said,
"I think you'll find it's easier
to do the work instead."

Kenn Nesbitt