Happy Valentine's Day

INTRODUCTION
Share this poem with your class during the Valentine’s Day Party. Read it again and have the class join in.

POEM

Valentine
by Shel Silverstein

I got a valentine from Timmy
Jimmy
Tillie
Billie
Nicky
Micky
Ricky
Dicky
Laura
Nora
Cora
Flora
Donnie
Ronnie
Lonnie
Connie
Eva even sent me two
But I didn’t get one from you.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Prelutsky, Jack. 1983. THE RANDOM HOUSE BOOK OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN. ISBN 0394850106

EXTENSION
See if any two people in the group have rhyming names. And, see if other names can be rhymed with words. Try to make two line rhyming poems using the names and/or words.

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