Midnight In The Classroom
Children , have you ever wondered,
How your classroom looks at night,
When the world has fallen silent,
With the fading of the light?
Mellow moonbeams , gently slanting,
Paint the room in gold and grey,
Behind the desks the chairs awaken ,
Move about and have their say.
"Wasn't teacher cross this morning"
Laughs the blackboard to the rest
When she found that Hal had hidden,
His pet hamster down his vest.
On the floor a lovely pencil
grumbled to a chair,
Sonia saw me but walked past me
Just as if I was n't there.
Desk lids creak and open softly,
Books step out as brave as day
Stroll around and chatter loudly,
Of the children in your class.
"Stella KeatingĀs always eating ,
Harold Rice is scared of mice,
I do n't fancy Dermot Clancy,
Susan Price is awful nice.
So through out the hours of moonlight
All the class things lightly talk
Pens and crayons, shelves and rulers,
Trundle wheels and bits of chalk.
When the sun peeps through the mountains
Chasing nights blackness away
Back they creep into their places
Ready for the next day |
Halloween Night
By Robert Hiedbreder
(Oxford Uni Press 1985)
I saw a ghost on Halloween night.
I saw a ghost all spooky and white.
But......
I was n't scared
I knew what to do
I stared at the ghost,
And I yelled "Boo " !
Up flew that ghost. It cried in fright.
It screamed and ran out of sight.
I scared that ghost with all my might.
I scared that ghost on halloween night |
The Creature in the Classroom
By Jack Prelutsky
It appeared inside our classroom
at a quarter after ten,
it gobbled up the blackboard,
three erasers and a pen.
It gobbled teacher's apple.
and it bopped her with the core.
"How dare you !" she responded.
"You must leave us ....there's the door."
The creature didn't listen
but described an arabesque
as it gobbled all her pencils,
Teacher stated very calmly,
"Sir! You simply cannot stay,
I'll report you to the principal
unless you go away!"
But the thing continued eating,
it ate paper and swallowed ink,
as it gobbled up our homework
I believe I saw it wink.
Teacher finally lost her temper.
"OUT!" she shouted at the creature.
The creature hopped beside her
and GLOPP...it swallowed teacher. |
Ghosts
That's right sit down and talk to me.
What do you want to talk about?
Ghosts you were saying you believe in them.
Yes, they exist without a doubt.
What, bony white nightmares that rattle and glow.
No, just spirits that come and go.
I've never heard such a load of rubbish.
Never mind, and one day you'll know.
What makes you so sure?
I said
What makes you so sure?
Hey !
Where did you go?
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