April poetry

A Daffodil

A little yellow cup,
A little yellow frill,
A little yellow star,
And that’s a daffodil.

All
Puddles are
Raindrops
In a
Lake of laughter!

Sing a Song of Springtime
(Sing a Song of Sixpence)

Sing a song of springtime
Smell flowers in the air
Daffodils are blooming
Buds are everywhere
The days are getting longer
The birds just love to sing
Isn't it so nice to say
Hello again to spring?

Birth of a Butterfly
(Hush little Baby)

A mama butterfly lays all her eggs,
Out pops a caterpillar, crawling on its legs.
The caterpillar first is rather thin,
But then it eats till it bursts through its skin.

After growing nice and big,
The caterpillar climbs on a leaf or twig.
It makes a shell where it hangs inside.
The shell then cracks, and the parts divide.

Inside the shell, a change was going on,
The form of the caterpillar now is gone.
When the shell opens, what comes out?
A beautiful butterfly fluttering about!

By Meish Goldish

Butterfly Cycle
(Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Hatch, hatch little egg,
I’m so very small.
Teeny tiny caterpillar,
You can’t see me at all.

Crawl, caterpillar, crawl,
Munching on a leaf.
Crawling, munching, crawling, munching,
Eat and eat and eat.

Form, form chrysalis,
I’m a different shape;
Hanging by a silken thread
Until I can escape.

Rest, rest, chrysalis
While I change inside;
Now at last my time has come
To be a butterfly.

Stretch, stretch, pretty wings,
It’s a special day;
Soon they will be strong enough
For me to fly away.

Fly, fly, butterfly,
Fly from flower to tree;
Find a place to lay my eggs
So they can grow like me.

Only My Opinion

Is a caterpillar ticklish?
Well, it's always my belief
That he giggles as he wiggles
Across a hairy leaf.

by Monica Shannon

Five Fuzzy Caterpillars

Five fuzzy caterpillars
on a spring day.
Five fuzzy caterpillars
crawl and play.

Five fuzzy caterpillars
eat and eat some more.
Five fuzzy caterpillars
we can see no more.

Each in a chrysalis
they will stay,
till they are butterflies
and fly away.

by Margaret Allen

The Butterfly Song
(“Up on the Housetop”)

First comes a butterfly and lays an egg,
Out comes a caterpillar with many legs,
Oh see the caterpillar spin and spin,
A little chrysalis to sleep in.

Oh, oh, oh, wait and see
oh oh oh wait and see
Out of the chrysalis, my oh my
One beautiful butterfly!

Caterpillar Song

I started as a tiny egg
Upon a leaf of green
And now I stay upon the leaf
So I will not be seen

Soon I’ll build a chrysalis
Upon a limb up high
I’ll stay a while and then come out
And be a butterfly

Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar

Fuzzy wuzzy caterpillar
On a leaf you creep.
Spin yourself a blanket
And then go fast asleep.

Fuzzy wuzzy caterpilar
Wakes up by and by.
Now you have two pretty wings
You're a butterfly!

by Rozanne Williams

Fun in the Rain!
(Three Blind Mice)

Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain
Dribble, dribble, sploosh!
Dribble, dribble, sploosh!
Grab your boots, your coat, and hat,
Jump in a puddle and go kersplat!
Stomp about and become a drowned rat,
Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain.

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs,
Sitting on a speckled log,
Eating the most delicious bugs,
Yum, yum.
one jumped INTO the pool,
where it was nice and cool,
then there were four little speckled frogs.

(Repeat, working your way down to one.)

One little speckled frog sitting,
sitting on a speckled log,
eating the most delicious bugs,
yum, yum.
He jumped into the pool,
where it was nice and cool,
then there were no little speckled frogs.

Growth of a Tree
(“I’m a Little Teapot”)

I’m a little maple, oh so small,
In years ahead, I’ll grow so tall!
With a lot of water, sun, and air,
I will soon be way up there!

Deep inside the soil my roots are found,
Drinking the water underground.
Water from the roots my trunk receives,
Then my trunk starts making leaves.

As I start to climb in altitude,
Leaves on my branches will make food.
Soon my trunk and branches will grow wide,
And I’ll grow more bark outside!

I will be a maple very tall,
Losing my leaves when it is fall.
But when it is spring, new leaves will show.
How do trees grow? Now you know!

By Meish Goldish

I’m a Little Seed
(“I’m a Little Teapot”)

I’m a little seed,
Brown and fat,
I haven’t got a front,
And I haven’t got a back.
Plant me in the earth,
Give me water each day,
I’ll grow to be an apple tree,
While you play!

Spring Robin
(“I’m a Little Teapot”)

I’m a little Robin with a red breast
I come first in the spring to nest.
If you can catch me, hurry up and
Try before I fly up into the sky.

Rain, Rain
(Row Row, Row Your Boat)

Rain, rain falling down
Landing all around.
What a lovely sound you make
Splashing on the ground.

Rain on the Window

WATCH!
one drop
starts
slowly
down---
then with a rush
joins a second,
picks up a third!
Now the three-drop
races to the
bottom
PLOP!

Raindrops

Raindrops are such funny things.
They haven't feet or haven't wings.
Yet they sail through the air
With the greatest of ease,
And dance on the street
Wherever they please.

Little Raindrops

This is the sun, high up in the sky.
A dark cloud suddenly comes sailing by.
These are the raindrops,
Pitter, pattering down.
Watering the flower seeds
That grow under the ground.