Letter To Bee

You can find more poems at Rainy Day Poems for Kids

Here's one by Emily Dickinson, who lived here in Massachusetts.  Click on her name for more information about her or go to Brain Pop to watch a video!

Bee! I'm expecting you!

Was saying Yesterday

To Somebody you know

That you  were due-

The Frogs got Home last Week-

Are settled, and at work-

Birds, mostly back-

The Clover warm and thick-

You'll get my Letter by

The seventeenth; Reply

Or better, be with me-

Yours, Fly.

Emily Dickinson

A Poem About Trying Your Best

Your Best

If you always try your best

Then you'll never have to wonder

About what you could have done

If you'd summoned all your thunder.

And if your best

Was not as good

As you'd hoped it would be,

You still could say,

"I gave today

All that I had in me."

Barbara Vance

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes is one of my favorite poets!  Here are two beautiful short poems of his.

Hope

Sometimes when I'm lonely,
Don't know why,
Keep thinkin' I won't be lonely
By and by.



My People

The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.

The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.

Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

Playing "Dress-Up"" was a favorite thing for my kids when they were little, so this poem reminded me of all the fun you can have, just pretending!!

Let's Dress Up

Let's dress up in grown-up clothes:

Swishing skirts

That touch our toes

Wispy veils

That hide our nose.

Let's dress up today.

Feathered bonnet

Trimmed with lace;

Rouge and lipstick

On our face;

An umbrella

(Just in case).

Let's dress up today.

Now we're ready.

Let's go walking

Down the street

(Pretend we're talking).

Walking

Talking

Walking

Talking,

All dressed up today.

Mary Ann Hoberman

If you decide to dress up, take a picture and send it to me to post!! lee@bpsk12.org

Welcome to the Fox Hill Reading Room

Welcome to the Fox Hill Reading Room

Hi Everybody! I am Mrs. Lee,

the Reading Specialist at Fox Hill School.  I'm subbing for the amazing Mrs. DeCoste ( the real reading specialist), who is home taking care of a new baby and her other two adorable kiddos! 
I sure miss seeing all my friends in the Reading Room at school, so I thought I'd reach out and share some ideas and poems for you until we can get back together.  While we are all spending time at home here are some simple ideas to keep busy and learning.

Read a book

Draw a picture

Read a book

Write a story

Read a book

Plan/cook a meal

Read a book

Talk to or text a friend

Read a book

Write a poem

Read a book

Take a walk

Read a book

Play in your yard

Read a book

Do a puzzle

Read a book

Play a board game

Read a book

Get the picture? One of best things we can do to keep learning is read, read read!

So here is a silly and fun poem to get you started. 
Happy reading!

Weather

Dot a dot   dot a dot

Spotting the windowpane

Spack a spack speck    flick a flack fleck

Freckling the windowpane

A spatter a scatter   a wet cat a clatter

A splatter a rumble outside.

Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella

Bumbleshoot barrel of rain.

Slosh a galosh  slosh a galosh

Slither and slather and glide

A puddle a jump a puddle a jump

A puddle a jump puddle splosh

A juddle a pump a luddle a dump a

Puddmuddle jump in and slide!

Eve Merriam

Don't you love the sounds in this poem?  
What does it make you think of?