Kelly Nelson EDUC 124 Poetry File 10/21/13 Poem Subject: Science Name: A Hatchlings Song by Judy Sierra

Im almost hatched! Im almost hatched! Im small, Im wet, Im not out yet. Im almost hatched! Im pecking hard, Im pecking hard. Im tired, Im weak, It hurts my beak. Im pecking hard. My heads outside, My heads outside. The moon is brightThe worlds so white! My heads outside Im really hatched, Im really hatched. At last Im free. Hey, Dad, its me! Im really hatched. Source: Sierra, J. (1998) Antarctic Antics pg. 1-2 Why: This poem is from an author that is not extremely popular and well known, such as Shell Silverstein, but still has an interesting take on the life of a penguin and science content. I also really enjoyed that this poem had repetition in it and makes listening to the penguin hatch fun and exciting! I also really like the description of the penguin slowly seeing the world around him and coming out of his egg. How and Who: I would use this poem in a 2nd or 3rd grade classroom while studying how animals reproduce or how the life cycle applies to animals and their offspring. It would be interesting see how students use this poem with the content and how this type of life cycle is different than other animals, plants, or humans. Poem Subject: Social Studies Name: Niagara Falls New York by Diane Siebert Niagara Falls great tumbling walls of water frothy white

all pouring down and roaring down and rainbowed by the lights Source: Siebert, D. (2006) Tour America A Journey through Poems and Art pg. 11 Why: This poem is short and sweet but very to the point. It gives an amazing description of Niagara Falls and really gives the reader a visual of the landmark and tells the reader what the landmark is and why it is so great to our country. I love the descriptive words and flow that the poem has. How and Who: I would use this in a 4th or 5th grade classroom while studying the United States and different historical landmarks that we have here in the United States. I would use this poem to describe and teach about Niagara Falls to students and allow them to really visualize what this landmark looks like before getting into its history and its importance in United States history. Poem Subject: Language Arts Name: Alphabet Stew by Jack Prelutsky Words can be stuffy, as stick as glue, But words can be tutored to tickle you too, To rumble and tumble and tingle and sing, to buzz like a bumblebee, coil like a spring. Juggle their letters and jumble their sounds, Swirl them in circles and stack them in mounds, Twist them and tease them and turn them about, Teach them to dance upside down, inside out. Make mighty words whisper and tiny words roar In ways no one ever had though of before; Cook an improbable alphabet stew, And words will reveal little secrets to you. Source: Attenborough, L. (2001) Poetry by Heart A Childs Book of Poems to Remember by Jack Prelutsky pg. 42

Why: This poem uses really creative language and gives motion to words and letters that makes up words. It allows the reader to think about words and the alphabet in a fun way and that they are exciting and make life more fun rather than the idea that they are just used for reading. Its a really upbeat poem that carried a lot of movement and fun as you read through it. How and Who: I would use this in a 1st or 2nd grade classroom while studying word work, different blends and digraphs, or vowel and consonant patterns. It gets students excited about words and how they can work in many different ways to create different sounds with words. It could be used to introduce or reiterate the ideas of different letters and sounds and how they can work together in text and reading. Poem Subject: Health Name: Runny Bakes A That by Shel Silverstein Runny had to bake a tath Before theyd sive him gupper. He got so tungry in the hub, He ate the rat of mubber. He chewed his dubber rucky up, He gulped boap subbles, too. But what upset his mamma most Was shrinking the dampoo. Source: Silverstein, S. (2005) Runny Babbit - pg. 34 Why: This is a funny poem that gets you laughing as you are reading it. The poem gets you thinking about bathing and washing in a creative way. I like the way it requires the reader to think about the letters that are switched and what it should say if we put the letters that are switched back in their correct place. How and Who: I would use this in a Kindergarten classroom while studying or talking about personal hygiene and the importance of being clean. This poem could be used to talk about and washing/bathing yourself and its importance in health and safety. It could also be used to talk about hand washing at home and school so that students do not get sick from having germs and bacteria close to their bodies or on their hands. Poem Subject: Math Name: One a Penny by Anonymous One a penny, Two a penny, Three a penny,

More, Four a penny, Five a penny, That's a nickel more. Six a penny, Seven a penny, Eight a penny, More, Nine a penny, Ten a penny, That's a dime for the store! Source: Can Teach Website www.canteach.ca/elementary/songpoems70.html Why: This is a very catchy poem that the reader can easily remember and relate to. It also incorporates rhyming that gets the flow and rhythm of the poem to seem almost song like. It is a fun and quick read that has real life meaning and something that the reader can use in everyday life! How and Who: I would use this in a 1st grade classroom while studying and learning about money and the different values of US coins. The poem makes for a good guide to remember the values of the penny, nickel and dime for students who are working on learning these different coins and how they can be used to make bigger amounts of money and how they compare to each other in value. Poem Subject: Art Name: Colors passing through us by Marge Piercy Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh. Every day I will give you a color, like a new flower in a bud vase on your desk. Every day

I will paint you, as women color each other with henna on hands and on feet. Red as henna, as cinnamon, as coals after the fire is banked, the cardinal in the feeder, the roses tumbling on the arbor their weight bending the wood the red of the syrup I make from petals. Orange as the perfumed fruit hanging their globes on the glossy tree, orange as pumpkins in the field, orange as butterflyweed and the monarchs who come to eat it, orange as my cat running lithe through the high grass. Yellow as a goats wise and wicked eyes, yellow as a hill of daffodils, yellow as dandelions by the highway, yellow as butter and egg yolks, yellow as a school bus stopping you, yellow as a slicker in a downpour. Here is my bouquet, here is a sing song of all the things you make me think of, here is oblique praise for the height and depth of you and the width too. Here is my box of new crayons at your feet. Green as mint jelly, green as a frog on a lily pad twanging, the green of cos lettuce upright about to bolt into opulent towers, green as Grand Chartreuse in a clear glass, green as wine bottles. Blue as cornflowers, delphiniums, bachelors buttons. Blue as Roquefort, blue as Saga. Blue as still water. Blue as the eyes of a Siamese cat. Blue as shadows on new snow, as a spring azure sipping from a puddle on the blacktop.

Cobalt as the midnight sky when day has gone without a trace and we lie in each others arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire. Source: Poetry Foundation Website www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176836 Why: This poem relates colors to many different things and gives the reader ideas and visuals for what types of things in life look like these different colors. It brings life to colors and allows them to take on a shape in our minds! It is a little more thought provoking and requires deeper thinking about colors and how they relate to our own lives. How and Who: I would use this poem in a 4th or 5th grade classroom while studying different art and how color is used in different images, drawings or paintings. This poem can give students different examples or what they can do with these colors and how these different colors can be used in art and different images. It would be interesting to see how students interoperate this poem and incorporate the ideas into their own art and work.