For many children school will be starting up in a few days time. Hopefully they are looking forward to school, but if they are feeling anxious about what is to come, they might want to take a look at today's poetry title. The poems in this book are funny and they will certainly chase away their worried feelings.
Super Silly School Poems
Super Silly School Poems
David Greenberg
Illustrated by Liza Woodruff
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Scholastic, 2014, 978-0-545-47981-3
For many years children’s lives revolve around their
school and the people they meet there. They have wonderful experiences that
they treasure, and then there are those incidents that they would like to
forget as soon as possible. For this picture book David Greenberg has written
seventeen poems that explore school life in creative and amusing ways.
Every child has
days when they realize that they have forgotten something, something that they
know they need to take to school that day. In the poem Something you Forgot we meet a boy who has remembered his art
project, his new markers and his backpack. He has his video game and his lunch
money. He remembers to brush his teeth and yet there is still that something
that he has forgotten. He gets “terribly distressed” because he just cannot
remember what the something is, and then he looks in the mirror and realizes
that he has “forgotten to get dressed.”
Further along in
the book we encounter a poem that will surely resonate with young readers. The
poem describes what it is like when you go to the grocery store and see
something truly shocking. There is your teacher. Shopping. For food. How can
this be? After all, “Teachers live at school,” and that is where they belong.
Who is responsible for letting the teacher out?
Other topics in
this book include school lunches, homework issues, show-and-tell, the school
bathroom, and the way in which teachers seem to be adept mind readers.
Throughout the
book the humorous poems are paired with illustrations that perfectly capture
images that appear in the poems.
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