The Interrupting Owlet

The Interrupting Owlet
by Helen Cowles LeCron

When Mother Owl and Father
Owl are talking busily
About old Uncle Blinker in the gnarled
old maple tree,
Or Cousin Drowsy Hoot-Owl in the
oak across the way,
Or stylish Old Miss Snowy Owl, I
much regret to say
That naughty little Downy often inter-
rupts the two
To ask them, "Who'd you say it was?
Say! WHO, Pa? WHO, Ma?
WHO?"

Though Mother Owl has told him that
the question's impolite,
And little owls should never interrupt
on any night
When parents talk, it doesn't seem to
do a bit of good!
For Downy still continues, as no
thoughtful owlet would,
With "WHO, Pa? Who Ma?
Who'd you say?" and "Tell me,
folks! Aw! Do!"
And "WHO'D you say it was? Aw,
Ma! Say! WHO, Pa WHO,
Ma! WEHO--OO?"

Acorns

Acorns by Edith King

Oh, when the ripe acorns,
So smooth and so brown,
Get loose from their cups
And come pattering down,

What work is in store
For the girls and the boys,
First of all to collect them,
And then to make toys.

For they can make thimbles,
And tiny dolls' cradles,
And thorn-handled saucepans,
And egg-cups and ladles,

Extinguishers, flower-pots,
Baskets and rings,
And barrels and buckets,
And all kinds of things.

They can Stock a whole shop,
If they have any brains,
And use a small penknife,
And plenty of pains.

Print and Play An Apple Themed Color Sort Game

An Apple Themed Color Sort Game

      Download and print out my apple sorting game for your early learning center or homeschool. If you have Microsoft Word, you can enlarge these bushels of apples before printing them. I've included one sheet of apple graphics for students to color or for teachers to print onto red, green and yellow papers here.

      After laminating the tiny printed apples on red, green and yellow papers, mix them together inside of a dark sack made of burlap or even a brown paper bag would suffice. Then lay the color printed bushels out onto a carpet and pass the bag of colored apples around a circle of very young students. Ask each child to take turns at pulling a little apple from the sack. The students should then match the color of their apples with the colors of the bushels as they go. This simple early learning game teaches them to distinguish between red, yellow and green.

Red bushel of apples.

Green bushel of apples.

Yellow bushel of apples.