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Updated
April 1, 2008
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| April Activities| Cherry Blossom Festival | Poetry Month | Earth Day |
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Up Pop the Flowers!
(Tune of "Pop! Goes the Weasel")
We plant some seeds in the dirt.
(Pretend to plant seeds.)
The rain falls in a shower.
(Raise arms; the wiggle fingers downward.)
The sun comes out, and what do you know?
(Children hold hands and squat.)
UP pop the flowers! |
April Shower
Mix a little sunshine
With an April shower.
Drop it in a garden bed
And up pops a flower.
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Bulletin Board Idea
Make a huge rainbow by painting the kids hands and making handprints of one colour for each rainbow arc. There are lotsof sites that have ways to make daffodil crafts and paper flowers.
Poem for Board:
April is a rainbow month,
With sun and springtime showers.
Bright with golden daffodils
And lots of pretty flowers! |
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| Washington Post Cherry Blossom Guide |
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Sakura
(Ms. Whyte actually sang this song
in her elementary school for the
Cherry Blossom Festival!)
Download the Score
sakura, sakura,
noyama mo sato mo
miwatasu kagiri
kasumi-ka kumo-ka,
asahi-ni niou
sakura, sakura,
hana zakari
Translation:
Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms,
Blanketing the countryside,
As far as you can see.
Is it a mist, or clouds?
Fragrant in the morning sun.
Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms,
Flowers in full bloom. |
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Smithsonian Kite Festival
Sat. March 29, 2008 from 10am-4pm
Go fly a kite! The event, now in its 42nd year,
will take off from the National Mall
between 10th and 14th streets NW |
| Kite Glyph |
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Runny Babbit: Lost In Translation Activity
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EARTH DAY POEM
by Jane Yolen
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.
And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.
That's why we
Celebrate this day.
That's why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me. |
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