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Introducing a Poem of the Week

  • Posted by Victoria Hackett
  • Categories The Seedling BLOG
  • Date March 31, 2016
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Introducing a Poem of the Week

There are so many ways to incorporate literacy into your Outdoor Classroom. Becoming a Natural Teacher and creating nature-based lesson plans can be daunting. Adding a poem that coincides with your lesson plan can add a new dimension to learning any given topic. Here are a few poems to get you started.

Do you have any favorite poems that you use in your Outdoor Classroom? If so, share them in the comments below.

I Like Bugs by Margaret Wise

I like bugs

Black bugs, green bugs,

Bad bugs, mean bugs

A bug in a rug,

A bug in the grass,

A bug on the sidewalk,

A bug in a glass,

I like bugs.

Round bugs, shiny bugs,

Fat bugs, buggy bugs,

I like bugs.

The Mantis-All Small Poems and 14 More, by Valerie Worth

  • Bowing
  • Such lean
  • And monklike
  • Robed in
  • Such leafily
  • Meek
  • Array
  • Folding
  • The wrists
  • And treading
  • So slowly,
  • Can it
  • Really be
  • Wholly
  • Holy
  • Pretending
  • to pray
  • While intending
  • To prey?

A Fairy Poem (Fairies in the book Fairies from A to Z by Adrienne Keith)

In the Fall carved pumpkins glow and maple leaves put on a show.

Then quiet winter settles down and hushes every busy town.

And after Spring, when the flowers bloom and the sweetness drifts into your room,

There are fairies everywhere under bushes, in the air,

Dancing in the deepest woods hiding out in neighborhoods

Playing games just like you and I play singing through their busy day

Thinking thoughts and dreaming dreams in deserts, caves and rocky streams.

Even up in outer space shooting stars and fairies race.

So listen, touch, and look around in the air and on the ground

And if you watch all Nature’s things you might just see a fairy’s wings.

 

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Victoria Hackett
ABOUT VICTORIA: My mission is for every child in every school to have access to an Outdoor Classroom. Therefore, I inspire educators to teach outdoors and lead an on-line virtual community of Natural Teachers all over the world to create their own Outdoor Classroom story.

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  1. annefoley
    April 2, 2016
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    I love teaching children to recite poems. The poem from the fairy book will add to the wonder of our fairie garden.

    I came upon a song recently. It would be a great poem to learn when planting seeds.

    The Little Seed

    A liile seed for me to sow.
    A little earth to make it grow
    A little hole, a little pat.
    A little wish and that is that.
    A little sun, a little shower.
    A little while and then a flower.

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