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Poetry for Children ~ at home
Welcome back! This week we are going back to the beginning and picking out some of our favourite poems of the last few weeks. I shall do this again next week, as I think we only come to love poems as our familiarity with them grows – obviously we have to chose which ones to become familiar with! All I’ve done here is to choose the ones the children enjoyed the most!
So – dive in!
MONDAY’S POEMS
WEDNESDAY’S POEMS
Moon
Hello, MOON! by Patricia Hubbell, from Orange, Silver, Sausage edited by James Carter & Graham Denton, published by Walker Books.
First Dog on the Moon by David Orme, from Orange, Silver, Sausage edited by James Carter & Graham Denton, published by Walker Books.
Friendship
The Jumblies by Edward Lear from Shout, Whisper & Sing: 101 Poems to read aloud compiled by Beverley Mathias, published by The Bodley Head
Since Hanna Moved Away by Judith Viorst
David by Matt Goodfellow from Bright Bursts of Colour by Matt Goodfellow, published by Bloomsbury
The Sea
The Sea by James Reeves from The Dragon Book of Verse, Oxford University Press
maggie and milly and molly and may by e.e.cummings, from The Dragon Book of Verse, Oxford University Press
The Shark by Alfred, Lord Douglas, from I Like this Poem: A Classic Anthology to Treasure, edited by Kaye Webb, Puffin
School
The Teacher’s Day in Bed by David Orme from The Works, chosen by Paul Cookson, published by Macmillan
Anxious Mum by Justin Coe from The Magic of Mums by Justin Coe published by Otter-Barry Books
The Painting Lesson by Trevor Harvey from Haven’t you grown! poems about families selected by Belinda Hollyer, published by Kingfisher.
Spring
The Brook by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, published by Batsford
Fledgling from Bright Bursts of Colour – Poems by Matt Goodfellow, published by Bloomsbury
Spring Morning by A A Milne, from When we Were Very Young by A A Milne, published by Methuen.
Family
Billy is blowing his Trumpet by Anon from Haven’t you Grown! poems about families selected by Belinda Hollyer, published by Kingfisher
My Brother’s on the floor roaring by Michael Rosen from Haven’t you Grown! poems about families selected by Belinda Hollyer, published by Kingfisher
Newcomers by Michael Rosen from Haven’t you Grown! poems about families selected by Belinda Hollyer, published by Kingfisher
Links to the posts
Here are the links to our earlier posts on these themes, where you’ll find the poems and activities we did that week.
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My favorite poem from Monday was Mrs Moon
Yes! I love the lines about sitting in the moon with a
“ball of fading light
and silvery needles
knitting the night”
My favorite poem from Wednesday was billy is blowing his trumpet and The painting lesson!😍😍
Thank you Abbie – the Billy poem is such good fun, isn’t it! And I loved it when we were all acting out the different parts – so noisily! Gr’Anna x