Poem of the Week

Last week we spent time learning a poem called "December Leaves".  It's one of my favorites, the poet compares December Leaves to a bowl of cornflakes!

December Leaves

The fallen leaves are cornflakes

That fill the lawn’s wide dish

And night and noon the wind’s a spoon that stirs them with a swish.

The sky’s a silver sifter,

A-sifting white and slow

That gently shakes

on crisp brown flakes

The sugar known as snow.

After reading together as a class, locating rhymes, sight words and drawing a picture of our mental images, we read our poems to a buddy-

And then we acted out the poem as we enjoyed a good old fashioned bowl of cornflakes!

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