I really love poetry, in our curriculum we have a nursery rhyme unit and its really fun! But I never really thought of using it this way. Since my children are young, I think starting out with painting pictures on rocks with even words beside it that rhyme from the nursery rhymes. As they further go along the year they themselves can create this themselves with some help. Other than nursery rhymes we love to teach our children with songs as it has a rhythm to it and they tend to remember concepts faster this way. One of the ways we talk about plants is called parts of plants with the rhythm and beat of the muffin man our kids love this song placing movement with it too, to get the wiggles out.

Oh, do you know the parts of plants,
The parts of plants, the parts of plants?
Oh, do you know the parts of plants
That make them grow and grow?
The roots, they hold the plant in place,
The plant in place, the plant in place.
The roots, they hold the plant in place,
And soak up water, too.
The stem moves water up the plant,
Up the plant, up the plant.
The stem moves water up the plant,
Brings water to the leaves.
The leaves, they soak up the rays of sun,
The rays of sun, the rays of sun.
The leaves, they soak up the rays of sun,
And help the plant make food.
The flower turns into a fruit,
Into a fruit, into a fruit.
The flower turns into a fruit,
To hold the tiny seeds.
Oh, now you know the parts of plants,
The parts of plants, the parts of plants.
Oh, now you know the parts of plants
That make them grow and grow!