Ideas for use in class at the bottom
Miss Lotte
That Miss
Lotte who was nuts;
I mean
completely round the bend.
She’d wear
socks on her hands
And wave them
at her friends.
She’d put
her dress on backwards
And odd
shoes on each foot.
It was
definitely more than loose,
A screw was
missing from her nut.
That Miss
Lotte who was loopy;
I mean
completely round the twist.
She said
she new double dutch
And could
converse with the fish.
She ate her
dinner in the bath
And drank
the water from the loo.
While all
around her said, she was
Completely
crackers and cuckoo.
That Miss
Lotte who was balmy;
I mean gaga,
crazy and mad.
Told the
children they could riot
In the
lessons that they had.
Said they
should dance on the table,
Shout out
and have a laugh.
But they
stood open mouthed and knowing
She was noodle
brained and daft.
That Miss
Lotte who is bog-eyed
Is jam-headed
and mungo-jerried,
Over the
rainbow, out of her mind,
Tap-doo-lally
and wholly wellied.
She is
actually very kind.
Although
not her only feature:
That Miss
Lotte who is bananas,
Is the
world’s greatest teacher.
Ideas for Teaching
Ideas for Teaching
- Identify the words that rhyme. use them to look at phonemes with the same sounds but different spellings e.g. foot and nut
- Draw a picture for each verse (have children work in pairs or threes to do this.
- Make a list of the words for mad/crazy
- Make up your own words for crazy. Try finishing these phrases. (if you get stuck add food types in the spaces)
- Mad as a ...
- ... - headed
- ... - brained
