“Halfway Down” (A Singable Poem)
In my recent travels for vintage children's picture books, I scored on a set of Childcraft, The How and Why Library for the mere sum of $5.00. These books are full of great illustrations by many different artists. I have quite a few scans for you from Volume 1 that I hope you will enjoy. Can I just say how much I like these books? They are fun to look at and full of ideas and inspiration. Don't forget to click on the pics for a bigger view. Artist: Charles Harper Oh Charley, how we do love thee, let us count the ways... Artist: Gordon Laite Artist: Gordon Laite I like all the details in these insect illustrations. Artist: Mary Horton What a great rendering of happiness! Artist: Fred Womack Who doesn't like polka dot elephants? Artist: Mary Horton Great composition by this artist! Artist: Russell Jackson I'm really impressed by the dimensional paper art by Russell Jackson. Coming up will be a post on Jackson with more examples of his work. Artist: Vernon McKissack This name is new to me, but I feel like I've seen work by this artist before, anyone familar with McKissack? Artist: William Steig Another masterful composition! Artist: Garth Williams Garth Williams draws a great mouse, like the hand lettering and the way the pages are laid out. Artist: Susan Perl I believe Susan Perl did a lot of work for McCall's Magazine in the 60's/70's. I'm partial to pen and ink drawings. Artist: Roger Duvoisin Isn't this a great illustration? Artists: Alice and Martin Provensen Alice and Martin Provensen were a great team and this is just one of the many reasons why their work is well regarded. Artist: Elizabeth Orton Jones I like illustrations like these where only part of it is painted and the rest is left as line work, it's very striking. Artist: Gail E. Haley I have a couple books by the talented Gail Haley and will do a post on her in the future. Artist: Mary Miller Salem This picture takes me back to when I was a kid - nice vantage point and composition. Artist: Leonard Weisgard Another great illustration by the impeccable Leonard Weisgard, simple and striking. Artist: Mary Hauge I like the simple color scheme and tree trunk rendering in this illustration. I'm not familar with this artist, but I'd like to see more of her work.
Artwork: Florence Sarah Winship Published: 1942 Whitman Publishing
A sight words poem���plus three enticing activities���to help children learn all about pronouns!
These five phonics poems for older students (sounds-ar -or -air -ou -oy -ir), are perfect for reading intervention, special needs teaching, EFL and ESL students. Great for middle school students reading below grade level and struggling upper elementary readers. Use in groups or one to one. The Cowboy How Far? Haircut Downstairs The Farm Do you want to achieve quick and impressive results teaching phonics and reading? Do you dream of your students reading and writing words and sentences? Rhyming poems are a quick, easy and efficient way to teach phonemes and blending of digraphs, long vowels and vowel teams. My poems focus heavily on repeated use of the sounds being taught and avoid the use of tricky, hard to read words that cause a lack of confidence and stifle fluency. Five poems for -ar -or -air -ou -oy -ir Two versions included: Illustrated and plain/UK and USA spelling versions included. Click here to see all of my phonics resources created specifically for older students. Download my FREE guide to reading difficulties here. Unsure of which order to teach the sounds? Click here.
Bueno! (Hello! in Mexican, Spanish) The Mexican Flag I haven't featured a nursery rhyme in a while, so I thought today we'd explore: HICKORY DICKORY DOCK! Now, I have noticed that different versions contain different tenses of the verb "to run". I think the above version is correct, grammar-wise. Wikipedia has a very good history of the rhyme. 'Hickety Dickety Dock' illustration by William Wallace Denslow from a 1901 Mother Goose collection. It looks like the rhyme originally was said as: 'Hickere, Dickere Dock' published in London in 1744. close-up of William Denslow's illustration The next version comes from 'Mother Goose's Melody' printed in 1765. It uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock' Interesting to me: There are TWO musical versions. One is popular in Great Britain, and the other one is popular in North America! The one printed above is the version I am familiar with, so I guess it is the North American tune. A super scherensnitte pattern for a mouse, taken from a Chinese Zodiac series. scroll clock by mdereus27 possibly etsy? Now, the above scherensnitte type clock was originally for a Cinderella story. By changing the position of the hands, you could easily make this into a hickory dickory dock clock! (say that 6 times, really fast....) vintage illustration found at http://www.fun-roadtrip-games.info/ Here are a few more coloring pages for you - http://www.reading-with-kids.com/ unknown source and another terrific How-to-draw from Dover Publications: an adorable cupcake found at http://www.thecupcakeblog.com/ Why couldn't you also make that little mouse from clay? What about making a 'clock' pincushion (felt would be easiest), and make some hat pin toppers from shrinky dink plastic? vintage Rand McNally book, found at http://www.michiganzone.blogspot.com/ This next is a very clever way to serve some party treats with a theme: http://www.littlenummies.net/ That's a peanut butter sandwich, with a hole cut out for a banana slice. The mouse is made from a strawberry, with halved grape ears, and little raisin eyes and nose! I'm not sure what she used for the clock hands or the mouse whiskers or tail. But you could try orange peels, or chow mein noodles or bread crusts.... Here is a fun and simple vintage pattern for embroidery: found at http://www.sewcraftful.com/ Wouldn't it be fun for a nursery room to have several embroidered pillows, each with a different nursery rhyme on it? Sew deep ruffles for a girl's room, and knife point edges for a boy's. You could, of course, be really energetic and make a baby quilt with each block a different nursery rhyme. Check out my past blogs for more nursery rhyme patterns, and check out the links from where I have found them for many more! I'd like to finish up today with a vintage poster from 1917: illustrated by Mary Louise Spoor and found at http://www.smallequals.bigcartel.com/ I especially like the little mouse reading! Remember to smile at someone today that is a 'wall flower'. Don't forget to laugh with a child today, and eat ice cream!!! :0) inkspired http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/
The G. Blatchford Organ Company operated in Galt, Ontario at the turn of the 20th century. Obviously, in those days, mouse-proof pedals were a feature worth stressing. R. Aileen Belfry, B. Gertrude Bergey, Erna A. Martin. Across the Country. Toronto: The John C. Winston Co. Ltd, 1959. Illustrated by Aileen Tyrrell Richardson.
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I LOVE saving figurative language until June - it's such a fun language unit ... and perfect for our "dreaming of summer brains". We finished up our EQAO testing mid week, and this onomatopoeia activity was the perfect break from testing. How fun is that??? Students chose two contrasting colours - one for the background and one for the word and border "bursting out of the page". They also needed newspaper (cut just a fraction smaller that the "bursting out of the page border" and glued the newspaper on top. They glued their word on top of that (we had brainstormed a lot of onomatopoeia words, but for some reason most of them chose SPLAT for their word). I also had them do a little shading under their letters for that little extra POP (see, I know some onomatopoeia words, too). ;) I had seen this awesome idea on Pinterest and followed it back to Artisan des Arts. Her examples are FANTASTIC!! We also wrote simile poems this week. I found a little template HERE for the students to use for their rough copies. When students were finished their templates, I had them write out their good copies, and illustrate a few lines with a small image. I hung these up, too ... LOVING our bulletin board switch up ... even this late in the school year!!! (I have two of these "smART class" bulletin boards side by side in the classroom. 15 more school days left ... I think I can ... I think I can ... Happy Friday!!!
Who Has Seen the Wind, a Singable Poem
Artwork: Florence Sarah Winship Published: 1942 Whitman Publishing
Short Poem About My Life - World's largest collection of cat memes and other animals
A collection of poems and rhymes about childhood activities, flowers, animals, and seasons
"Childrcraft: Poems of Early Childhood," edited by J. Morris Jones, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin, Leonard Weisgard, Janice Holland, Milo Winter, Henry C. Pitz, Esther Friend, Urlsula Koering, Tasha Tudor, R.T. Dixon, 1954. Featured in My Retro Reads: A blog celebrating the beauty of vintage children's books.
Sometimes, when we offer students choice during a poetry unit of study, they get come up empty. One topic that all kids have something to say about is school. Whether they love it or hate it, enj…
Artwork: Florence Sarah Winship Published: 1942 Whitman Publishing
Revisiting my childhood unearthed some truths that are relevant today.
from Humpty Dumpty Magazine ©Charles Ghigna
Accompanied by manual [man.], work and play [wkbk.], and Teacher's guide [tch.gd.]
Need inspiration for hosting poetry teatime with your homeschool group? I've got a year of homeschool co-op poetry teatime themes waiting for you here!
Illustrated by Marjorie Peters. “Childcraft, Volume One. Poems of Early Childhood.” Published by the Quarrie Corp in Chicago. Copyright 1923, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1939. Edited by S. Edgar Farquhar and Patty Smith Hill. Art editor Milo Winter. 38 artists listed in addition to the work of Milo Winter.
This illustration is from the public domain book, The Book of Knowledge, The Children’s Encyclopedia, Edited by Arthur Mee and Holland Thompson, Ph. D., Vol II, Copyright 1912, The Grolier Society of New York. The original copyright for these books was 1899. This poem and illustration of a mother and child is from page 564. The poem is titled "Who Can This Somebody Be?"
Hello dear friends! These sweet vintage pages are from a 1958 Nursery Rhyme book. I thought these 3 pages were so sweet and I wanted ...
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These poems have given me the needed words that I could never find to speak myself.
This introduction to poetry gives teachers ideas on teaching poetry minlessons that make a difference in how your students think about poems.
