Lord of the Rings

This past week I have been all about the "Lord of the Rings."  I have been doing things like humming some of the songs, reciting parts of the movies, and watching the movies.  Also, in history we learned about a man named Hannibal, of Carthage.  He trained elephants to be "war elephants" duing  the Punic Wars (between Rome and Carthage), and there are war elephants in the Lord of the Rings series.  Samwise Gamgee called them "olephants". 

I am also intending to read the three "Lord of the Rings" books that we own this summer.

Poetry

Two weeks ago we borrowed a poetry book from the library.  There were some poems in it that Mom and I recognized like "Casey at the Bat", "The Raven", "Wynken, Blynken and Nod", and... Frodo's Song in Bree by J. R. R. Tolkien.  It appears in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first Lord of the Rings book. We took a video of me reciting the whole poem (I memorized it.), but Mom can't get it to download on this blog.

We started a unit about poems in school.Mom taught us about rhy ming and rhythm patterns.  Then I wrote these poems.  I got the format idea from The Boys' Book - How to be the Best at Everything.

Archers
 Brave,strong
  Aiming, shooting,hiting
 Please help us win
olden day artilery


Ribs
 Tasty, distinctive smell
   Motionless, munching, going down my throat
  Delicious

Pigs' gift to us