INTRODUCTION
Show Bobbi Katz’s website to the students: http://www.bobbikatz.com/. Explain that they will be celebrating her birthday, spring, and warm weather (since it is the month of May). Quote the saying, “April showers bring May flowers.” Have the students stand up and run in place for a short time, maybe thirty seconds or a minute if students are older (use a timer) before reading the poem. See if they can make the connection between running and the poem.
Show Bobbi Katz’s website to the students: http://www.bobbikatz.com/. Explain that they will be celebrating her birthday, spring, and warm weather (since it is the month of May). Quote the saying, “April showers bring May flowers.” Have the students stand up and run in place for a short time, maybe thirty seconds or a minute if students are older (use a timer) before reading the poem. See if they can make the connection between running and the poem.
POEM
SPRING IS
By Bobbi Katz
Spring is when
the morning sputters like
bacon
and
your
sneakers
run
down
the
stairs
so fast you can hardly keep up with them,
and
spring is when
your scrambled eggs
jump
off
the
plate
and turn into a million daffodils
trembling in the sunshine.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Prelutsky, Jack, ed. 1983. THE RANDOM HOUSE BOOK OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN. Illustrated by Arnold Lobel. New York: Random House. ISBN 0394850106
EXTENSION
Take the children outside and hold races. If possible treat the children to cupcakes to celebrate Katz’s birthday.
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