Name: ______________________ Date: ___________ Parent Initials: ________
2nd Quarter Poetry Recitation
Please help your child memorize one of the following poems. Initial and return this form to school when your
child is ready to recite to the class. All poetry recitations must be recited no later than December 2, 2015.
The Rock Cycle Poem
Everybody Needs a Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Has been formed in layers
Often found near water sources
With fossils from decayers.
I’m sorry for kids
who don’t have
a rock
for a friend.
Then there’s igneous rock
Here since Earth was born
Molten lava, cooled and hardened.
That’s how it is formed.
I’m sorry for kids who only have
TRICYCLES
BICYCLES
HORSES
ELEPHANTS
GOLDFISH
THREE-ROOM PLAYHOUSES
FIRE ENGINES
WIND-UP DRAGONS
AND THINGS LIKE THATif
they don’t have
a
rock
for a friend.
These two types of rocks
Can also be transformed
With pressure, heat and chemicals;
Metamorphic they’ll become.
-Author Unknown
Sand
Sand at the beach.
Sand at the shore.
Sand in the ocean
On the ocean floor.
Sand in the desert,
Sand on the ground,
Sand in the sandstorm
Blowing all around!
Sand from rock that has
Crumbled into grains
Sand in a sand dune
Shaped by wind and rains.
Sand on an island,
Sand in the sea.
Sand in the seabox
For you and me.
By Meish Goldish
By Byrd Baylor
A Rock Makes an Excellent Puppy
A rock makes an excellent puppy.
They’re practically almost the same.
Except that a puppy’s rambunctious;
A rock is a little more tame.
It’s true that a rock’s not as hyper.
It may not chase after a ball.
And, often as not, when you call it,
It won’t even hear you at all.
It doesn’t annoy you with barking;
It quietly sits on a shelf.
A rock makes an excellent puppy.
That’s what I keep telling myself.
By Kenn Nesbitt