Every month, our principal shares poems with the students and then reads one each morning over the intercom.

Students are encouraged to memorize two or three poems and can go to the school's poetry prize box. Below are the poems for February if families would like to help at home.

If You Should Meet a Crocodile
By: Anonymous

If you should meet a crocodile.
Don't take a stick and poke him;
Ignore the welcome in his smile,
Be careful not to stroke him.
For as he sleeps upon the Nile,
He thinner gets and thinner;
And whene'er you meet a crocodile.
He's ready for his dinner.

Hug o' War
By: Shel Silverstein

I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.

The Land of Happy
By: Shel Silverstein

Have you been to The Land of Happy,
Where everyone's happy all day,
Where they joke and they sing
Of the happiest things,
And everything's jolly and gay?
There's no one unhappy in Happy,
There's laughter and smiles galore.
I have been to The Land of Happy - 
What a bore!

Love
By: Shel Silverstein

Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,
Lizzie, our "O" had some homework to do,
Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way,
So I'm all of love that could make it today.

February
By: Maurice Sendak

In February
It will be
My snowman's anniversary
With cake for him
And soup for me
Happy once
Happy twice
Happy Chicken Soup with rice