Jacob's Poetry Reading

Tomorrow is the last day of school.  My first grader is almost a second grader!  Jacob's class did a poetry reading night in their classroom.  The teacher set up a little stage with microphone for them, and they each read their favorite poem.  Then his teacher played a slide show of the kiddos throughout the year (which made us all teary-they were so much smaller at the beginning of the year!) and the kiddos showed us their school work portfolios from the year.  Here's a video of Jacob reading his favorite poem, Sunflakes by Frank Asch.

Sunflakes

If sunlight fell like snowflakes

gleaming yellow and so bright

we could build a sunman

we could have a sunball fight.

We could watch the sunflakes

drifting in the sky

We could go sleighing

in the middle of July

through sundrifts and sunbanks

we could ride a sunmobile

and we could touch sunflakes-

I wonder how they'd feel