Parents_Grade5

=Deborah Twombly and I started a book club last year for fourth graders and their parents. We met once a month in the evening throughout grade 4 and then grade 5. Tonight we shared some favorite poetry and now we are sharing with you.=
 * Mrs. George's current favorites:

__Evidence__ //__Poems by Mary Oliver__//


 * I Want to Write Something So Simply**

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think-- no, you will realize that all the time words that you yourself, out of your own heart had been saying. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * **Evidence 1.**

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious and full of detail; it wants to polish itself; it is the only vessel in the world that can hold, in a mix of power and sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas, ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * //Shel Silverstein//


 * The Voice**

There is a voice inside of you that whispers all day long. "I feel that this is right for me, I know that THIS is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, Or wise man can decide What's right for youjust listen to The voice that speaks inside. ||  ||   ||   ||   || ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * **The Sack Race**
 * **Headphone Harold**

Headphone Harold wore his headphones Through the night and through the day. He said," I'd rather hear my music than the dumb things people say."

In the city's honkin' traffic, he heard trumpets 'stead of trucks. Down the quiet country back roads he heard drums instead of ducks.

Through the patterin' springtime showers he heard guitars instead of rain. Down the track at the railroad crossin' he heard the trombones---not the train. ||  ||   ||   ||   || = =