Jack Frost 2

Purpose:  The rhythm of this poem, as well as the story that it tells, make this a particularly appealing poem for children.  The rhyme scheme is also fun, and the children will enjoy picking out the rhyming words.  The children will learn that a poem can tell a story.

 

Jack Frost
By C.E. Pike

Look out! Look out!
Jack Frost is about!|
He’s after our fingers and toes;
And all through the night,
The gay little sprite
Is working where nobody knows.

He’ll climb each tree,
So nimble is he,
His silvery powder he’ll shake.
To windows he’ll creep
And while we’re asleep
Such wonderful pictures he’ll make.

Across the grass
He’ll merrily pass,
And change all its greenness to white.
Then home he will go
And laugh ho, ho ho!
What fun I have had in the night.

 

Directions: Improvise hand and body movements such as snatching fingers and toes and painting pictures on the windows.  A particularly effective way to teach children to recite a poem is:

1. First read the entire poem.
2. Then ask the children to repeat each line after you.
3. After doing each line recite two lines and let them repeat.
4. Then do three lines in the same way.
5. Finally, try a whole stanza (one stanza each day).
6. Make a chart with the words.

Eric Gidseg

 

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