Home Geography for Primary Grades · Lesson XXVIII · Unit 7: Plants
28. Spring (poem)
Goal: Your child enjoys the poem and goes outside to find signs of spring named in it.
You'll need
- The book open to the poem
- A walk outside (best in spring)
- A geography notebook (any notebook kept just for these lessons) and a pencil
What's in the book
A poem by Lillian Cox about the signs of spring: rain and sunshine, tiny grass blades, budding leaves, robins and bluebirds, violets and spring beauties, cherry, peach and apple blossoms, buttercups and snowdrops.
The lesson, step by step
Read it aloud
Read the poem aloud, then again with your child joining in.
Drops of rain and bits of sunshine
Falling here and gleaming there,
List the signs
Go through the poem and list every sign of spring: grass, budding leaves, birds singing, violets, spring beauties, cherry, peach and apple blossoms, buttercups, snowdrops.
Robins, bluebirds, gayly singing,
Tell of happy, pleasant spring.
Go and look
Take a walk. Which signs from the poem can you find? Which other signs do you see that the poem does not name?
Look, don't pick, in parks and other people's gardens.
Draw
Your child draws three signs of spring found today, and labels them.
Why spring?
Ask: Why do plants start growing in spring? Think back to the poem: "drops of rain and bits of sunshine." Say: Plants need warmth and water. We will learn more about that in Lesson XXXV.
Afterwards
If it is not spring now, come back to this poem when it is, and do the walk then.