Poem of the Week
Each week your child will receive a poem to read to as many people as they can. Each time he/she reads this poem to someone, the listener needs to sign the back of the poem. He/She can only read one time per day to a specific person. This way you don't have to listen to the poem ten times a day!
At the end of the week, the student in our class who reads the poem to the most people will win the Great Poetry Race trophy for the week. The poems, with signatures, are due each Friday and the trophy will be awarded the following Monday.
This week's poem is called: Winter in the School Yard
The yard is like a freezer
We huddle in a bunch
And wish that we were all inside
Eating steamy lunch.
We're standing still as statues
We move to still our bones
But when we walk we feel as if
We're still as saxophones.
We'd rather be in music
Singing loud as lions
Or painting at the easels
Spring things like dandelions.
by: Sandra Liatsos.