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Each month students will read or memorize a poem.
Kindergarteners can practice reading the poem of the month.
1st graders have the option to read or memorize the poem.
HOW TO MEMORIZE A POEM:
Start by reading the first line or stanza.
Read it five times.
Try to say it again without looking.
Practice until you get it memorized.
Then, go on to the next line or stanza.
SEPTEMBER
The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamers,
Bring me all of your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap themIn a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
of the world.
OCTOBER
The Swing
By Robert Louis Stevenson
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside -
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown -
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
NOVEMBER
November by Elizabeth Coatsworth
November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.
DECEMBER
Snowball by Shel Silverstein
I made myself a snowball,
As perfect as could be,
I thought I'd keep it as a pet,
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some pajamas,
And a pillow for its head,
Then last night it ran away,
But first - it wet the bed!
JANUARY
THE SNOWFLAKE by Walter De La Mare
Before I melt,
Come, look at me!
This lovely icy filigree!
Of great forest
In one night
I make a wilderness
of white:
By sky cold
of crystals made,
All softly on
Your finger laid,
I pause, that you
My beauty see:
Breathe; and I vanish
Instantly.
February
I, Too
By Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
MARCH
Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
APRIL
Friends by Abby Brown
How good to lie a little while
And look up through the tree!
The Sky is like a kind big smile
Bent sweetly over me.
The Sunshine flickers through the lace
Of leaves above my head,
And kisses me upon the face
Like Mother, before bed.
The Wind comes stealing o'er the grass
To whisper pretty things;
And though I cannot see him pass,
I feel his careful wings.
So many gentle Friends are near
Whom one can scarcely see,
A child should never feel a fear,
Wherever he may be.
MAY
Alternate Poems:
January
No Difference by Shel Silverstein
February Poem
February by Anonymous
March Poem
Ants by Nick Clifford
MAY POEM
The Prettiest Name by Lenore Hetrick
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