This month we have been reading Stone Soup, Wagon Wheels, Johnny Appleseed, How do Apples Grow, There's a Map in my Lap, What is the World Made Of, The Boy Who Drew Birds, How to Draw Birds, How We Crossed the West, and much much more. We are learning States and Capitals in the order that they joined the USA.
Our Composer of the month is: Frédéric François Chopin
Our Artist of the month is: Salvador Dali
Our poem of the month is My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at
all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to
me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
