Spring Poetry Break

Introduction
Hang a poster that includes clouds, flowers, baseball diamond, skateboards, ladybugs, and centipedes. Ask the kids what season they would see these objects. Turn the poster over and read the poem "Spring Is."

SPRING IS

Spring is flowers
...................showers
.......................plowers.
Spring is watching clouds for hours.

Spring is seeding
....................weeding
.........................centipede-ing.
Spring is great for skateboard speeding.

Spring is hiking
...................biking
......................baseball striking.
Spring's a time to take a liking.

Florian, Douglas. HANDSPRINGS. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2006.

Extension

Children usually say, "Yea, I knew that was about spring." You can then ask them to tell you more spring time things like: birds returning, baby animals, bears and other mammals waking from their sleep, rainstorms, and holiday's like St. Patrick's Day. Let the children read their list and ask them to pick five words from their list and find five words to rhyme with their words.
Mix two sets together and let that pair of kids play a Spring Rhyme Match game or they can make up a poem from their ten rhyming words.