Bed Time • Stories and songs about monsters are popular with children and create plenty of opportunity for costumes and props.
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Bed Time is suitable for multi-voice reading. Whilst the whole poem could be read by the entire group, you could also allocate verses to different groups with the repeated chorus (There’s a monster…) recited by the whole class.
For an assembly item, children could dress as their favourite monster or ghoul, and the poem could be acted out. For a longer assembly, the poem could be complemented by a monster song such as Monster Mash. Classroom Links:
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Bed Time can be used as a lead-in to creative writing or art activities. Have students write a story about what would happen if there really was a monster under their bed, or a scary story about a ghost or monster of choice.
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For art, students can draw or paint their monsters, create models or even make monster masks which could be used in the performance.
• Boris Monster Scared of Nothing, by Sophie Laguna and Ben Redlich (Scholastic Press, 2007) • Meet the Monsters, by Max Fatchen (Omnibus, 2004) • Monster, by Michael Salmon (The Five Mile Press) • The Shower Monster, a poem by Meredith Costain, published in Doodledum Dancing, by Meredith Costain (Penguin, 2006) • The Little Little Little Boy, a poem by Elizabeth Honey, published in The Moon in the Man (Allen & Unwin, 2002) • The Bathroom Bunyip, a poem by Colin Thiele, published in Poems in my Luggage (Omnibus Books, 1989) • Mum, There’s a Monster, a poem by Grace Knight, published in 100 Australian Poems for Children, edited by Clare Scott-Mitchell and Kathlyn Griffith (Random House, 2002) • Gargoyle, Frog Nightmare, and It’s Only a Dream, all published in If The World Belonged To Dogs, by Michelle Taylor (UQP, 2007)
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