Skip to main content

January Poems in February


Okay, I know we're five days into February, and here in Minnesota we've got relatively warm temperatures to boot (22 degrees F. right now--not bad). But last week at parent-teacher conferences, Rose's teacher showed us her January poem. Remembering that Eli had written one in 3rd grade, too, I found it and decided to post them both today.


Who Said It's January
by Elijah Zahn, 2006

The skis did when they were on me.
The teeth did when they chattered.
The wind did when it was cold.
The snow did when it turned to ice.
The hot cocoa did when it was warm.
The sled did when we went sledding.



Who Said It's January
by Rose Zahn, 2008

The snow did when it fell every which way.
The music did when I went to concerts with flowing music.
The sled did when I zoomed past every body.
My Cat did when she went outside and right back in.



I think they're wonderful poems! Maybe I can get them to write one for February...
Labels:

Comments

Jen said…
Beautiful poems, Lisa. You should be proud.
9:53 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lisa Zahn, Life Coach--Some Exciting News!

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to tell you I now have my very own domain and website dedicated to my new, thriving business as a co-active life coach. I recently completed training through the wonderful Coaches Training Institute and am working my way toward certification as a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC). I write regular blog posts and a weekly newsletter, which you can sign up for and receive via email , over at lisazahn.com now. I think you'll enjoy following along over there. And go check out my site--it's beautiful!
Post a Comment
Read more

Homeschooling/Unschooling Almost A Year Now

The kids took their annual, required standardized achievement test yesterday. This is the law in Minnesota, homeschoolers have to take the test and keep it in the files at home but we don't have to turn it in to the district or anything, unless there's a problem. It seems reasonable to me. Yesterday's test went well. A friend of mine, a former teacher, does the testing as a business, so the kids are really comfortable with her. She sets up her "office" at the library and devotes about an hour to each kid, using the Peabody Individual Achievement Test . The categories in the Peabody test are General Information (science, social studies, art, etc.); Reading Recognition; Reading Comprehension; Mathematics; Spelling. There are 100 questions per category, though they don't start each child at number 1 but somewhere before/below where they should be at and work up from there. One of my kids , age 9, tests just at or above her grade level. This is great. A confirmat...
13 comments
Read more

On Family Meetings and Chores

ON FAMILY MEETINGS: On Friday night we held our first-ever Zahn Family Meeting. I've always felt that families who hold family meetings are so, well, organized and democratic and all that and we've just never gotten around to them (which speaks to my lack of organization, and probably democratic-ness, too). But on Thursday, after "crabbin' out" at the kids for not helping around the house enough, I decided to call a Family Meeting for the following night. I made the announcement to all, including dear husband, that the meeting would take place at exactly 6:30 p.m. after our Previously Scheduled Family Dinner at exactly 6:00 p.m. Just trying to be organized here... I asked the family members to come up with agenda items. Mine, of course, would be the subject of chores. I also said I would give a Treasurer's Report (a.k.a. "why we haven't paid your allowance since Christmas"). So the appointed hour came and the Meeting commenced. I asked for agenda...
14 comments
Read more