Poem of the Week ~ Grade 4

On My Nature Hike

by Neal Levin

Lizard skitters on a path,

Muskrat takes a rustic bath,

Beaver weaves a home of sticks,

Dragonfly does fancy tricks,

Mallard glides among the reeds,

Chipmunk rustles in the weeds, 

Turtle moseys through the mud,

Whitetail nibbles on a bud,

Eagle soars across the sky,

Warbler sings a lullaby...

I'm as quiet as can be,

Only watching peacefully.

Boy, oh boy!  This poem introduced us to a lot of new words!  Do you know what a warbler is?  We used context clues to guess, and some of us were right!  A warbler is a bird.  

We also noticed that this poem has an AA, BB, CC pattern and that every line has 7 syllables.