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Back to School Poems

Summer is winding down and it’s time to start getting prepared to go back to school. Here, at the Poetry Nook, we are going to join in excitement by sharing with you three classic poems about school.

If you haven’t already, be sure to stop by any of the nine library branches to log your summer reading. For every five days you reading in your library books for at least twenty minutes you earn an entry into our grand prize raffle. For kids in kindergarten through sixth grade there will be a bicycle raffle sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Houma and the Friends of the Terrebonne Public Library, and seventh graders to adults will be entered in for a chance to win a Kindle Fire Tablet. You have until 6pm on July 31st to log your reading at the library in order to be eligible for the raffles.

I hope these school poems inspire you to write some of your own. If they do, I would love to read them. Please send me your work at nmagola@mytpl.org.

Cat

Teacher

Loud shouter
Deep thinker
Rain hater
Coffee drinker

Spell checker
Sum ticker
Line giver
Nit picker

Ready listener
Trouble carer
Hometime lover
Knowledge sharer

-Paul Cookson

Round and Round 

Round and round the playground,
Marching in a line.
I’ll hold your hand.
You hold mine.

Round and round the playground,
Skipping in a ring.
Everybody loves it
When we all sing.

Round and round the playground,
That’s what we like:
Climbing on the climbing frame,
Riding on the bike.

Round and round the playground,
Altogether friends.
We’re sad, sad, sad,
When the school day ends.

-Paul Cookson

Dog in Lake

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-Naomi Hurtienne Magola, Youth Services Librarian