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Rhymes poetry songs... back to school

Back-to-school time

 

Observe nature at the end of summer.

The animals, the snail after the rain, the spider and its web in the morning...

Suitable for aesthetic activities; the shiny trace of the snail, the star web decorated with drops.

Fruit trees for work on taste and colors and vocabulary acquisition

Cross-Curricular Competencies: Saying a Poem from Memory

Eenie Meenie

woodpecker and woodpecker and colegram

Bour and bour and ratatam

Eenie Meenie

Pencils

But what are the pencils for?

during recess?

Red draws a mouse,

green a sun,

blue draws a radish,

the gray a gooseberry.

The black who has no idea

makes big pies.

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Corinne Albaut

My schoolbag

My satchel has a thousand smells,

My satchel smells like apples,

The book, the ink, the eraser,

And the colored pencils.

My satchel smells of orange,

Bison and nougat,

He smells everything we eat

And what we don't eat.

Fig and tangerine,

The silver or gold paper,

And the marine shell,

Boats leaving the port.

My mother's long hair

And my daddy's cheeks.

Mornings in the light,

The rose and the chocolate.

          Pierre Gamarra

The little designer

Under my pencil, big ships

Are born, happy, and I travel,

With long blue lines, over the water,

Above a cloudless sky.

My yellow pencil is a sun,

My red a ripe cherry,

My darkness, night and sleep,

My green, a corner of nature.

Ah! i am a magician

With multicolored chopsticks.

Wings lift my hands

And I fly towards the dawn.

            JL Vanham

I wanted in my satchel

Take away my sand castles,

My kite, shells

And the portico of the beach

 

Mom told me

It's not allowed

And then all that

It doesn't fit !

 

So I took a nice pen,

To taste it, some cakes

And only reasonable things.

Plus three little grains of sand !

 

Pierre RUAUD

Ahoy ! It's back to school

 

Ahoy ! Ahoy !

It's back to school

sing the little shoes

can't wait to gallop.

 

Ahoy ! Ahoy !

It's back to school

sing the aprons

with little shoes.

 

We will make friends

to school !

We will make friends

starting today !

 

Ahoy ! Ahoy !

It's back to school

Autumn day or summer day

to make a good student

don't miss back to school !

Ah, will I tell you mom

 

Ah, will I tell you mom

What causes my torment

Daddy wants me to reason

like a big person

I say candy

are better than reason

Livre 

 

Comptines pour la rentrée des classes

 de Corinne ALBAUT

illustré par Claude LAPOINTE

Beautiful day in September

Beautiful day in September

Of gold, honey and amber,

Whose immense sky

Looks like a shell

where iridescent and shines

Gold, amber and honey!

Sometimes the wind picks

In the woods a leaf

Of honey, amber and gold,

Who spins and, sweet,

Touch the moss

And aerobatics again,

Then arises slow,

On the sloping bank

At the foot of a birch

Of a birch that arches

In the September sky

Her reflection in the water

Of honey, gold and amber.

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Fernand Gregh

             The word of the world

To school

 

Where is this toddler going, no higher than a boot?

He put on his best panties this morning;

Pink and fresh, neatly combed, in her neat coat

Here he is in the street, alert and perky!

 

The beret on the head and the bag on the shoulder,

For the first time he goes to school.

…...........................

His mother accompanies him and holds him by the hand

But he could, he said, go it alone.

 

Frederic Bataille

Iskiwiwi and Askawawa


Askawawa is a huge hippopotamus
Iskiwiwi is a tiny Indian
Iskiwiwi shoots an arrow at Askawawa ZIP
Askawawa falls into the water Splash
Iskiwiwi is very happy HI HI HI
But Askawawa is smart
He knows how to swim HELLO
Iskiwiwi is all upset BOUH
ASKAWAWA
ISKIWIWI
ZIP
SPLASH
HI HI HI
HELLO
BOOH

At the school of the bush

 

Marinette is at school :

She flies, flies, flies

On the wings of a bumblebee.

 

Quickly we open the window :

A finch then enters

On song wings.

 

Quickly we close the window,

But the eye sees the swing

From a spider on the ceiling.

 

Ah ! The perfect schoolgirl

That you are Marinette,

At the bush school !

 

Pierre Menanteau

The child with his head in the air

 

The child with his head in the air

If we turn away, it flies away.

It would take an iron fist

To keep him in school.

 

The child with his head in the air

Never take your eyes off him :

Because as soon as he has nothing more to do

He prances in the skies.

 

He gives a lot of worries

To his parents and masters :

We believe him there, he is here,

Appears only to disappear.

 

Like we have clipboards

We need a child squeezer

To hold on with both feet

The child so light that flying.

 

Claude Roy

Oh the crocs

Oh the crocs

oh the crocodiles

On the banks of the Nile

They left

Let's stop talking about it

ASKAWAWA

show left thumb

ISKIWIWI

show right thumb

ZIP

the right thumb points to the left thumb like an arrow

SPLASH

with thumb and arm go down

HI HI HI

force a smile and raise your shoulders with each HI

HELLO

thumb up and other fingers closed zigzagging up

BOOH

cross your arms over your chest and pout

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