We both love using poetry in the classroom. You can read about how Heidi used it recently here. I'll be posting some more about it later this week when I start a new feature on Wednesday.
Today seemed like a good day to share one of my favorite spring poems, The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson. I love putting this poem up in the Spring and hearing the students read it over and over. It's a longer poem, but I usually only post the first part (up until the first repetition of "Oh wind…")
I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass
Oh wind, a blowing all day long,
Oh wind, that sings so loud a song!
I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all
Oh wind, a blowing all day long!
Oh wind, that sings so loud a song!
O you that are so strong and cold,
O blower, are you young or old?
Are you a beast of field and tree,
Or just a stronger child than me?
O wind, a blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
