Early Years Poem

[Guest]

I don't think anyone has added this poem yet!!!

 

A Child's Plea Original Author Unknown

 

Today I did my maths and science.

I toasted bread, I halved and quartered, counted,

measured, and used my eyes, ears and hands.

I added and subtracted on the way.

I used magnets, blocks and memory tray.

I learned about a rainbow and how to weigh.

So please don't say -

 

'ANYTHING IN YOUR BAG TODAY?'

You see. I'm sharing as I play, to learn to listen and speak clearly when I talk

to wait my turn and when inside to walk.

To put my words into a phrase, to find my name and write it down.

To do it with a smile and not a frown,

to put my pasting brush away. So please, don't say -

 

'WHAT NOTHING IN YOUR BAG TODAY?'

 

I learned about a snail and a worm.

Remembered how to take my turn.

Helped a friend when he was stuck.

Learned that water runs off a duck.

Looked at words from left to right.

Agreed to differ, not to fight.

So please don't say -

 

'DID YOU ONLY PLAY TODAY?'

 

Yes, I played the whole day through.

I played to learn the things I do.

I speak a problem, find a clue

and work out for myself just what to do.

My teacher's set the scene, and stay near-by to help me when I really try.

They are there to pose the problems, and to help me think.

I hope they will keep me floating and never let me sink.

All of this is in my head and not in my bag. It makes me sad to hear you say

'HAVEN'T YOU DONE ANYTHING TODAY?'

 

When you attend your meeting today and do your work I will remember not to say to you -

'WHAT NOTHING IN YOUR BAG? WHAT DID YOU DO?'

[Guest]

Thinking of poems!!! There is one that I always like to use with parents to show how important it is that settings and parents work in partnership, not sure if this has been posted before but it is worth remembering.

 

Unity Poem

I dreamed I stood in a studio

And watched two sculptors there.

The clay they used was a young child's mind

And they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher, the tools she used

Were books, music and art.

The other, a parent, worked with a guiding hand

And a gentle, loving heart.

Day after day, the teacher toiled with touch

That was deft and sure.

While the parent laboured by her side

And polished and smoothed it o'er.

And when at last their task was done,

They were proud of what they had wrought

For the things they had moulded into the child

Could neither be sold nor bought.

And each agreed they would have failed

If each had worked alone.

For behind the parent stood the school

And behind the teacher, the home.

Author Unknown

 

 

I think that this does illustrate the importance of partnership with parents.

[Susan]

Thanks for those Ange, and welcome aboard!

[Rea]

Liked those Ange, thanks. Like your avatar too, looks like the penguins as busy as you.

[hali]

Great Agne

[Sue R]

Thank you, Ange.

Welcome aboard!

 

Sue

[Inge]

just found this topic , The poems will be very useful thanks.

Thought a slightly different take on the poem which I have been using for the last ***years may be helpful. i have heard only one or two parents ask where is your work, or what have you got to take home in the last 3 years using this. ofsted were so impressed they even took a copy away to show others and it is currently being circulated around their early years office in this area!

 

Memo from your child

 

This morning I completed three puzzles (one was really hard). I played with the playdough and made some pancakes (not that I could eat them). I answered a lot of telephone calls in the office, writing notes in the diary afterwards. All this before tidying away the toys so I could listen to a story read by Inge. We sang lots of songs and I sang really loudly. After milk and toast- (I ate some apple too)- I taxed my very shaky physical skills climbing to the top of the climbing frame in the garden, all by myself. We then went hunting in all the dark corners for spiders, I saw a really big one. When mummy came to take me home she said

"Haven't you done any work?" ..........Oh how could I explain.

 

 

Just change the idea to fit in with your setting.