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My Teacher's In Detention: Kids' Favorite Funny School Poems
This book delivers 45 hilarious poems about school that cover everything from homework and tests to detention and school lunches. Well-known poets Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, and Robert Pottle—plus many more great Giggle Poets—wrote these gems.
My Teacher's In Detention contains 50 hilarious poems about school that cover everything from homework and tests to detention and gross-out school lunches. The book contains poems by well-known poets, including Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Robert Pottle, and more great "giggle poets." Editor and contributor Bruce Lansky is one of North America's three bestselling authors of children's poetry books. His kid-tested, giggle-filled children's poetry books have sold over 3.5 million copies. This book follows on the success of Lansky's other school poetry anthologies, No More Homework! No More Tests!, and If Kids Ruled the School, which have sold over 500,000 copies in all editions and are among the best selling children's poetry books at retail.
My Teacher's In Detention contains 50 hilarious poems about school that cover everything from homework and tests to detention and gross-out school lunches. The book contains poems by well-known poets, including Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Robert Pottle, and more great "giggle poets." Editor and contributor Bruce Lansky is one of North America's three bestselling authors of children's poetry books. His kid-tested, giggle-filled children's poetry books have sold over 3.5 million copies. This book follows on the success of Lansky's other school poetry anthologies, No More Homework! No More Tests!, and If Kids Ruled the School, which have sold over 500,000 copies in all editions and are among the best selling children's poetry books at retail.
80 pages, Paperback
First published June 27, 2006
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About the author
Bruce Lansky
198 books49 followersI was born on June 1, 1941. My first home was an apartment in Manhattan's Upper West Side, a neighborhood that overlooked the George Washington Bridge. Soon after kindergarten, my family moved to Scarsdale, which seemed to be “in the country.” In high school, I broke my ankle when I went out for the lacrosse team, so I wrote a sports column for the school newspaper. I don't think I showed any particular talent for writing then.
I went to St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. I actually learned to read Greek (I didn't understand it, though). I transferred from St. John's to New York University, so I could study political science and economics. I graduated with a major in philosophy and a minor in English. My first job was a market researcher for a beer company in New Jersey. Over the next five years, I switched jobs several times: advertising copywriter, advertising account executive, and marketing manager at a candy company.
I married Vicki and we had a baby, Douglas. I wanted him to have a home surrounded by grass and trees and ball fields, so I accepted a job in Minnesota, and Doug got a baby sister, Dana. What rescued me from poverty was that my wife and some other mothers wrote a cookbook. We published it ourselves, and it was a huge hit. That's how I figured out that I wanted to be a publisher when I grew up. We built Meadowbrook Press, and I became an author of baby name books and humor books for adults.
Ten years ago, I wanted to put together a children's book of all the poems they loved best. To find these poems, I tested poems in elementary schools. As I was testing poems on children, I decided to write a few to see what the response would be. At first it wasn't that good, but as my writing improved, I added my poems to new books. To get them just right, I'd rewrite them over and over. I've now edited six poetry anthologies and filled three books with my own poems. Because I spent a lot of time reading and testing poems in classrooms, schools started inviting me to perform. I've now performed at hundreds of schools. My goal to put on the most entertaining, most educational, and most motivating assembly a school has ever had. My web site, http://www.gigglepoetry.com, helps kids discover the fun of reading and writing poetry.
Language arts are a very important part of what you learn in school. You can read great books that take you to far-away lands. You can write your own stories and make yourself the hero of exciting adventures. Even if it seems hard sometimes, don't give up. Keep practicing your reading and writing skills, and soon it will become easier. There are so many wonderful worlds to explore in books and poetry. Get your very own passport by learning to read and write the very best that you can.
I went to St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. I actually learned to read Greek (I didn't understand it, though). I transferred from St. John's to New York University, so I could study political science and economics. I graduated with a major in philosophy and a minor in English. My first job was a market researcher for a beer company in New Jersey. Over the next five years, I switched jobs several times: advertising copywriter, advertising account executive, and marketing manager at a candy company.
I married Vicki and we had a baby, Douglas. I wanted him to have a home surrounded by grass and trees and ball fields, so I accepted a job in Minnesota, and Doug got a baby sister, Dana. What rescued me from poverty was that my wife and some other mothers wrote a cookbook. We published it ourselves, and it was a huge hit. That's how I figured out that I wanted to be a publisher when I grew up. We built Meadowbrook Press, and I became an author of baby name books and humor books for adults.
Ten years ago, I wanted to put together a children's book of all the poems they loved best. To find these poems, I tested poems in elementary schools. As I was testing poems on children, I decided to write a few to see what the response would be. At first it wasn't that good, but as my writing improved, I added my poems to new books. To get them just right, I'd rewrite them over and over. I've now edited six poetry anthologies and filled three books with my own poems. Because I spent a lot of time reading and testing poems in classrooms, schools started inviting me to perform. I've now performed at hundreds of schools. My goal to put on the most entertaining, most educational, and most motivating assembly a school has ever had. My web site, http://www.gigglepoetry.com, helps kids discover the fun of reading and writing poetry.
Language arts are a very important part of what you learn in school. You can read great books that take you to far-away lands. You can write your own stories and make yourself the hero of exciting adventures. Even if it seems hard sometimes, don't give up. Keep practicing your reading and writing skills, and soon it will become easier. There are so many wonderful worlds to explore in books and poetry. Get your very own passport by learning to read and write the very best that you can.
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January 4, 2019
This hilarious collection of school-themed poems make poetry fun and relatable for students. Each poem seems to feed off the curiosities and amusements of a child to make them laugh, making their experience of reading poetry indistinguishable from reading a joke book.
Genre: Poetry - The book is a collection of narrative poems centered around a school theme. All of the poems are rhyming poems, but several utilize different rhyming patterns.
Reading Level: P
Writing Mentor Trait: Word choice - This book uses careful word choice to create a wonderful hybrid of humor and relatable situations, while still finding words that rhyme. Students can practice expanding their vocabulary and finding those "just right" words to create poems in a similar fashion by using this book as a mentor text.
Other Classroom Uses: Several of the poems use different rhyming patterns. Students could practice using different rhyming patterns in their own poetry. This book could also contribute to a great discussion on what makes something funny.
Genre: Poetry - The book is a collection of narrative poems centered around a school theme. All of the poems are rhyming poems, but several utilize different rhyming patterns.
Reading Level: P
Writing Mentor Trait: Word choice - This book uses careful word choice to create a wonderful hybrid of humor and relatable situations, while still finding words that rhyme. Students can practice expanding their vocabulary and finding those "just right" words to create poems in a similar fashion by using this book as a mentor text.
Other Classroom Uses: Several of the poems use different rhyming patterns. Students could practice using different rhyming patterns in their own poetry. This book could also contribute to a great discussion on what makes something funny.
April 24, 2018
These poems are a great gateway for reluctant poets-the poems touch on easy to identify with subjects such as food fights and detention.
January 8, 2025
My teacher' in BIG trouble by Bruce Lansky
This book My Teacher is in big Trouble is a book about funny school poems. There are poems about the bus drivers, teachers, field trips and other school related things. One poem is about moms and schools and conferences. The poems are funny and are very relatable to things at school. This months theme is poetry and this book had 40 hilarious poems to read. The rules for the bus driver is my favorite poem because most of it is true but I rate this book a 3 star. Yes I would recommend this book to anyone that likes funny poems and someone that likes school.
This book My Teacher is in big Trouble is a book about funny school poems. There are poems about the bus drivers, teachers, field trips and other school related things. One poem is about moms and schools and conferences. The poems are funny and are very relatable to things at school. This months theme is poetry and this book had 40 hilarious poems to read. The rules for the bus driver is my favorite poem because most of it is true but I rate this book a 3 star. Yes I would recommend this book to anyone that likes funny poems and someone that likes school.
December 23, 2010
The book consists of poems about schoolchildren, parents, teachers, and principals that is hilariously funny.
Some poems illustrataes the wackily childish thoughts of school kids. For example, "Nobody Knows Where Our Bus Driver Goes" tells a wacky tale about the mysterious bus driver whom schoolchildren meet every day but they may not talk to very often . Poems like "Allergic" by Robert Pottle tells the silly excuses a kid makes to avoid going to school. The kid is allergic to all sorts of things related to school.
Allergic
Robert Pottle
I'm allergic to pencils
allergic to ink,
allergic to markers
and crayons, i think.
I'm allergic to homework,
allergic to rules.
To sum it all up:
I'm allergic to schools
"Ooh!Ooh! I Know!" by Christopher Cook reflects the funny scene in junior primary school where some students always raise their hands and are eager to answer. When it was their turn, they just forget to listen the question! "Heavy Reading" by Dave Crawley narrates a funny story about a lazy student who drags things on. The little boy has a really heavy schoolbag which carries all his books that 'he didn't read'. He fools around in school and wastes his time on TV and friends. We smile when we read the lines 'it wouldn't hurtto have a little fun. ' In the poem, the little boy luckily gets an escape but ends up in a cycle of procristination as his schoolwork is left unfinished after all. The story is so true to many of students.
Heavy Reading
Dave Crawley
I have some heavy reading.
My book bag weighs a ton.
It's filled with books I didn't read
and work I haven't done.
But there's no need to worry
'cause everything is cool.
I'll do my homework on the bus
before i get to school.
But first I'll talk to Tommy,
and mess around with Lou.
Are we at school already?
I still have work to do!
I still have time to do it
before the class begins.
But first, a game of tick-tack-toe.
As always, no one wins.
There's the bell! I'm out of time!
I still have not begun!
My science, math, and history-
I'll never get them done!
But just when things seem hopeless,
I hear the teacher say:
"Don't hand your homework in just yet.
I'll give you one more day."
The hours passed. I'm home at last,
and now I'll get it done.
But first, of course, it wouldn't hurt
to have a little fun.
I'll Rollerblade with Billy,
and watch TV with Gus.
Time for bed? My work's not done!
I'll do it on the bus...
"My Teacher Loves Her iPod" by Bruce Lansky is about a teacher in detention. This lazy image is portrayed in another poem that follows called 'What's Inside the Teacher's Lounge' by Neal Levin. The word 'ruin' reflects the thought that it's not cool when intelligent people are being lazy. The image of 'doggone teachers', which is a big contrast to the very best lounge. The facilities in the teacher's lounge described in the poem are partly from the imagination of schoolchildren. It has a microwave for pizza, a vending machine selling soda, a giant TV set and beanbag chairs - these are children's favourite things!
Some poems show a very positive image of teachers. 'My Class Has Got a Mr. Know-It-All' by Ted Scheu, as the poet writes he wants to be 'this showy, knowy creature'. 'The Field Trip' by Eric Ode shows sympathy to the teacher who has bad luck on a rainy day outdoors but ends in a humorous way-
'My teacher might feel that this trip was a failure.
I'm sure that was not her intent.
I'll tell her we had the most wonderful time.
I just can't recall where we went.'
The book is a light-hearted reading. It recalls your memories of your days in school and lets you smile when you read the poems.
Some poems illustrataes the wackily childish thoughts of school kids. For example, "Nobody Knows Where Our Bus Driver Goes" tells a wacky tale about the mysterious bus driver whom schoolchildren meet every day but they may not talk to very often . Poems like "Allergic" by Robert Pottle tells the silly excuses a kid makes to avoid going to school. The kid is allergic to all sorts of things related to school.
Allergic
Robert Pottle
I'm allergic to pencils
allergic to ink,
allergic to markers
and crayons, i think.
I'm allergic to homework,
allergic to rules.
To sum it all up:
I'm allergic to schools
"Ooh!Ooh! I Know!" by Christopher Cook reflects the funny scene in junior primary school where some students always raise their hands and are eager to answer. When it was their turn, they just forget to listen the question! "Heavy Reading" by Dave Crawley narrates a funny story about a lazy student who drags things on. The little boy has a really heavy schoolbag which carries all his books that 'he didn't read'. He fools around in school and wastes his time on TV and friends. We smile when we read the lines 'it wouldn't hurtto have a little fun. ' In the poem, the little boy luckily gets an escape but ends up in a cycle of procristination as his schoolwork is left unfinished after all. The story is so true to many of students.
Heavy Reading
Dave Crawley
I have some heavy reading.
My book bag weighs a ton.
It's filled with books I didn't read
and work I haven't done.
But there's no need to worry
'cause everything is cool.
I'll do my homework on the bus
before i get to school.
But first I'll talk to Tommy,
and mess around with Lou.
Are we at school already?
I still have work to do!
I still have time to do it
before the class begins.
But first, a game of tick-tack-toe.
As always, no one wins.
There's the bell! I'm out of time!
I still have not begun!
My science, math, and history-
I'll never get them done!
But just when things seem hopeless,
I hear the teacher say:
"Don't hand your homework in just yet.
I'll give you one more day."
The hours passed. I'm home at last,
and now I'll get it done.
But first, of course, it wouldn't hurt
to have a little fun.
I'll Rollerblade with Billy,
and watch TV with Gus.
Time for bed? My work's not done!
I'll do it on the bus...
"My Teacher Loves Her iPod" by Bruce Lansky is about a teacher in detention. This lazy image is portrayed in another poem that follows called 'What's Inside the Teacher's Lounge' by Neal Levin. The word 'ruin' reflects the thought that it's not cool when intelligent people are being lazy. The image of 'doggone teachers', which is a big contrast to the very best lounge. The facilities in the teacher's lounge described in the poem are partly from the imagination of schoolchildren. It has a microwave for pizza, a vending machine selling soda, a giant TV set and beanbag chairs - these are children's favourite things!
Some poems show a very positive image of teachers. 'My Class Has Got a Mr. Know-It-All' by Ted Scheu, as the poet writes he wants to be 'this showy, knowy creature'. 'The Field Trip' by Eric Ode shows sympathy to the teacher who has bad luck on a rainy day outdoors but ends in a humorous way-
'My teacher might feel that this trip was a failure.
I'm sure that was not her intent.
I'll tell her we had the most wonderful time.
I just can't recall where we went.'
The book is a light-hearted reading. It recalls your memories of your days in school and lets you smile when you read the poems.
September 17, 2012
I picked this book up not knowning that I had read it before. As soon as I began reading I reconized the poems instantly. Very funny, poems about everthing that has to do with school. I think my favorite is the Teachers Lounge poem... I remember thinking that the teachers lounge was awesome because there was a couch in it, but nothing like this poem describes.
Very funny, awesome choice for elementary kids for a quick 5 minute read and laugh.
Very funny, awesome choice for elementary kids for a quick 5 minute read and laugh.
September 7, 2013
As the title suggest this a book full of funny and entreating poems for kids of all ages! There are easy to read, silly, and down right wacky poems that brought a smile to my face. I would use this book from the beginning of school to bring poetry into the classroom on a weekly or even daily basis, maybe as a weekly poem to learn together. These poems would be a great asset in memorization as well as playing with sounds. Overall a great book that I will be adding to my collection.
December 15, 2011
I really liked this book. It was poetry, but it was poetry geared towards children. Plus, it was school-related and it was really funny. Kids would really like this one. It's a good one to keep in your classroom.
May 3, 2013
This book played as a hook for my 4th grade reading intervention and it worked fabulous. The poems are related to the school theme, which is common for students. After all, all students have background knowledge for school.
August 31, 2016
This light-hearted, humorous book of poems provides entertainment, as well as a great resource for fluency practice. What kid doesn't like reading about his parents being sick because they are supposed to meet the principal?!
July 30, 2008
Love It
June 26, 2010
this book is awsome if u like cheesy poems and really cheesy funny poems !!!!!!!!! :):):):):):):)
December 15, 2011
These poems are amazing. Each one had a different story and each one was great. I really enjoyed reading his poems and think that students would enjoy reading his humorous poems also.
November 18, 2011
Commical poems about school. Great for middle to Upper elementary. Many students would relate to the poems in some way.
July 6, 2012
I thought the book had really funny poems. My favorite poems are "A Note from Home","Vanessa eats paste", "It's finally Friday", "My teacher loves her iPod" and "today I had a rotten day".
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December 7, 2016This book is fiction, a book about poems my favorite part was 'Its finally Friday' it is funny.
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