This is an opportunity to have the kids work with their own plants in the classroom.
GREEN PLANTS (sung to "Three Blind Mice") Three main things, three main things. Green plants need, green plants need. For plants to grow, for plants to thrive, In order to keep green plants alive, What does it take so they'll survive? Three main things!
Plants need sun, plants need sun, That's number one, plants need sun. For plants to grow, for plants to thrive, In order to keep green plants alive, What does it take so they'll survive? Plants need sun!
Plants need air, plants need air, Be aware, plants need air. For plants to grow, for plants to thrive, In order to keep green plants alive, What does it take so they'll survive? Plants need air!
Plants need water, plants need water, 'Specially when it's hotter, plants need water. For plants to grow, for plants to thrive, In order to keep green plants alive, What does it take so they'll survive? Plants need water!
She wore her yellow sun - bonnet She wore her greenest gown She turned to the south wind and curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And wispered to her neighbor, "Winter is dead."
Picking flowers, 1...2...3! Beautiful blooms for Mommy. Bunch them up And hand them over. Look! I even found a clover. No matter how small or scraggly, My Mommy loves flowers When they come from me!
How dare the bee touch you? How dare the air make you shake? How can anyone pluck you? And make you cry through droplets. I fight all the month for them, who touch, pluck and shake you, The different colours you possess is greater than any rainbow, Your fragrance is billions time sweeter than the perfume of Arabia, Even the ambrosia cannot be sweeter than the droplets of water from your petal. Rose, Lily, Jasmine, Lotus all are so darling name, Special name than any girls I see around, The quality in you can be never compared, Even that life less wind is your slave. You are so sincere that after you germinate full, I can woo a girl giving you as token, After you come in bunch it’s a great wedding gift, You come as garland to welcome and forbid, This is not only the quality in you, You are even medicine for many diseases, The city is seemed beautiful due to you, Even the nature laughs to its full when it finds you, So far all have known you and have lot of respect for you, But for me you are the darlings which glow in May, “The Flowers of May.”
Tamika Merkison I made a May basket Author Unknown Sung to: "A Tisket, A Tasket" A- tisket, A- tasket I made a May basket I filled it up with flowers bright and hung it on the door just right A-tisket, A-tasket I made a May basket Flowers are a sign of spring and all the joy that it can bring.
Smells
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Through all the frozen winter
My nose has grown most lonely
For lovely, lovely, colored smells
That come in springtime only.
The purple smell of lilacs,
The yellow smell that blows
Across the air of meadows
Where bright forsythia grows.
The tall pink smell of peach trees,
The low white smell of clover,
And everywhere the great green smell
Of grass the whole world over.
My Spring Garden:
ReplyDeleteHere is my little garden,
Some seeds I'm going to sow.
Here is my rake to rake the ground,
Here is my handy hoe.
Here is the big, round yellow sun;
The sun warms everything.
Here are the rain clouds in the sky;
The birds will start to sing.
Little plants will wake up soon,
And lift their sleepy heads;
Little plants will grow and grow
In their little, warm earth beds.
(A great poem for Elementary school children to accompany a gardening activity or to introduce a unit or activity)
posted by: Krista Canfield
May Time Magic
ReplyDeleteA little seed
For me to sow?
A little earth
To make it grow?
A little hole,
A little pat,
A little wish,
And that's that.
A little sun,
A little shower?
A little while,
And then a flower.
In Goldie’s garden
ReplyDeleteFlowers grow
Within a neat
And ordered row.
But in our woodland
Never neat,
Grow jumbled rose
And meadowsweet,
And lily bell
And Queen Anne’s lace
And dandelions
Everyplace.
Now, I prefer
The wilderness where
The flowers have
To give and share.
But Goldie says
Both things are good:
The well-kept garden
And the wood.
--Jane Yolen
MAY IN BLOOM
ReplyDeleteMay is so beautiful:
Orchards are fair;
Branches of fruit trees
Make gardens of air.
Flowers of fragrance
Bloom in the light;
Fall like the snowflakes
Showering white.
Orchards of heaven
Grow with a grace,
And like a blessing
Perfume the place.
Each tree in blossom,
Each lovely spray,
In this month of Our Lady,
Bring glory to May.
Helen Maring
This is an opportunity to have the kids work with their own plants in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteGREEN PLANTS
(sung to "Three Blind Mice")
Three main things, three main things.
Green plants need, green plants need.
For plants to grow, for plants to thrive,
In order to keep green plants alive,
What does it take so they'll survive?
Three main things!
Plants need sun, plants need sun,
That's number one, plants need sun.
For plants to grow, for plants to thrive,
In order to keep green plants alive,
What does it take so they'll survive?
Plants need sun!
Plants need air, plants need air,
Be aware, plants need air.
For plants to grow, for plants to thrive,
In order to keep green plants alive,
What does it take so they'll survive?
Plants need air!
Plants need water, plants need water,
'Specially when it's hotter, plants need water.
For plants to grow, for plants to thrive,
In order to keep green plants alive,
What does it take so they'll survive?
Plants need water!
-Meish Goldish
Daffodowndilly
ReplyDeleteShe wore her yellow sun - bonnet
She wore her greenest gown
She turned to the south wind
and curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And wispered to her neighbor,
"Winter is dead."
MAY CROWN
ReplyDeleteAll early in the morning
I rose to greet the day,
And underneath my window
I saw a Child at play.
The robins were not fearful
Of one so mild and meek;
They lighted on His shoulder
And nested at His cheek.
He picked the clustering roses,
The lily in its sheath,
The long-stemmed purple violets,
And wove them in a wreath.
And then I saw a Lady
Come walking in the dew;
Her robe was white as starshine,
Her mantle was deep blue.
And as the Child approached her,
All sweetly she knelt down
And bent her head, receiving
His fragrant, flowery crown.
Poems by Emily Dickinson
ReplyDeleteNature
II.
MAY-FLOWER.
Pink, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,
Dear to the moss,
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.
Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,
Nature forswears
Antiquity.
May
ReplyDelete"The wind is tossing the lilacs,
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.
Beneath the apple blossoms
I go a wintry way,
For love that smiled in April
Is false to me in May."
- Sara Teasdale, May
Picking Flowers
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Amanda Husko
Picking flowers, 1...2...3!
Beautiful blooms for Mommy.
Bunch them up
And hand them over.
Look! I even found a clover.
No matter how small or scraggly,
My Mommy loves flowers
When they come from me!
MeredithC
ReplyDeleteBlossoms
by Frank Dempster
Out of my window I could see
But yesterday, upon the tree,
The blossoms white, like tufts of snow
That had forgotten when to go.
And while I looked out at them, they
Seeemed like small butterflies at play,
For in the breeze their flutterings
Made me imagine them with wings.
I must have fancied well, for now
There's not a blossom on the bough,
And out of doors 't is raining fast,
And gusts of wind are whistling past.
With butterflies 't is etiquette
To keep their wings from getting wet,
So, when they knew the storm was near,
They thought it best to disappear.
The Flowers of May
ReplyDeleteHow dare the bee touch you?
How dare the air make you shake?
How can anyone pluck you?
And make you cry through droplets.
I fight all the month for them, who touch, pluck and shake you,
The different colours you possess is greater than any rainbow,
Your fragrance is billions time sweeter than the perfume of Arabia,
Even the ambrosia cannot be sweeter than the droplets of water from your petal.
Rose, Lily, Jasmine, Lotus all are so darling name,
Special name than any girls I see around,
The quality in you can be never compared,
Even that life less wind is your slave.
You are so sincere that after you germinate full,
I can woo a girl giving you as token,
After you come in bunch it’s a great wedding gift,
You come as garland to welcome and forbid,
This is not only the quality in you,
You are even medicine for many diseases,
The city is seemed beautiful due to you,
Even the nature laughs to its full when it finds you,
So far all have known you and have lot of respect for you,
But for me you are the darlings which glow in May, “The Flowers of May.”
Sambidhan Acharya
Tamika Merkison
ReplyDeleteI made a May basket Author Unknown
Sung to: "A Tisket, A Tasket"
A- tisket, A- tasket
I made a May basket
I filled it up with flowers bright
and hung it on the door just right
A-tisket, A-tasket
I made a May basket
Flowers are a sign of spring
and all the joy that it can bring.
May Baskets
ReplyDeleteby Evaleen Stein
Let us take our baskets early
To the meadows green,
While the wild-flowers still are pearly
With the dewdrops' sheen.
Fill them full of blossoms rosy,
Violets and gay
Cowslips, every pretty posy
Welcoming the May.
Then our lovely loads we'll carry
Down the village street,
On each door, with laughter merry,
Hang a basket sweet.
Hey-a-day-day! It is spring now,
Lazy folks, awake!
See the pretty things we bring now
For the May Day's sake!
One Little Flower, One Little Bee
ReplyDeleteOne little flower, one little bee.
One little blue bird, high in the tree.
One little brown bear smiling at me.
One is the number I like,
you see.
The Trees by Philip Larkin
ReplyDelete"The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh."
(I think this poem is a great way to introduce May and also tie it into the importance of trees.)
Relaxing flowers
ReplyDeleteFive little flowers,
Standing in the sun;
See their heads nodding,
Bowing one by one.
Down, down, down,
Falls the gentle rain;
And the five little flowers,
Lift up their heads again!!
Mother’s Day Song (Are You Sleeping)
ReplyDeleteWe love mothers, we love mothers
Yes, we do; yes, we do.
Mothers are for hugging
Mothers are for kissing
We love you; yes, we do.