Yep, today, 14 May, actually is Dance Like a Chicken Day!
And the Chicken Dance originally roosted right here in Switzerland!
I know, right?
Chick out these Fun Fowl Factoids:
🐔In the 1950's a young Swiss named Werner Thomas penned the melody for what would become the Chicken Dance.
🐔The original name was 'Der Ententanz' which translates to 'The Duck Dance'.
🐔In the 1970's the song (and its signature dance moves) came to the United States where September Music Corporation acquired the rights and Stanley Mills added lyrics in English.
🐔It wasn't until the 1980's that the Chicken Dance got the world wide love and admiration it deserves!
On the National Today website, where I found all these egg-citing factoids, the number one suggestion on how to celebrate National Dance Like a Chicken Day is:
Dance like a chicken
And who better to dance with me than Smidgey! (Who, by the way, is feeling MUCH better - though I must confess it took a chicken treat to inspire her to dance.)
As for me, I don't need chicken treats to want to dance. What I lack in dancing skills I make up for in enthusiasm.
Today's poem is proof positive that hennything is possible when you combine chicken dancing and a dog:
That's the sound of satisfaction coming after a month of reading, writing, sharing, and celebrating POETRY!
While April was a flurry of National Poetry Month goodness, I'm kicking off the first Poetry Friday in May with a listening exercise of a different sort.
The folks at Smarty Pants Magazine for Kids took a story I wrote and turned it into a Storytime Audio Experience! How cool is that?
I tend to hear voices in my head (ahem, character voices!) when I'm writing, but to hear another person take your story and voice it was a whole new experience.
Please leave your links below so we can all go traipsing around the interwebs and share in the goodness that is the Poetry Friday community. Thank you!💖
