wy_kid_wrangler04 Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 He is picky. He wants something about bugs or superheros :D Is there anything good for a 6 year old that is either about bugs or superheros?? Oh, and he wants it to be funny!! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 I'm Nobody who are you? By Emily Dickinson. I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! No bugs, but a frog and a bog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjgrubbs Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Tne snail says, "Alas!" And the snail says, "Alack! Why must I carry My house on my back? You have a home To go in and out, Why must mind always be Carried about? Not any tables, Not any chairs, Not any windows, Not any stairs, Pity my misery, Pity my wail - For I must always be Just a poor snail." But he's terribly slow, So perhaps it's as well That his shell is his home, And his home is his shell. Just as note, I didn't think of this off the top of my head, but I purchased The Book of 1,000 Poems which has a subject index, first line index and author index. I find this book incredibly helpful for times like this and for nature journaling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 The Llama who had no pajama by Hoberman is a good book with lots of poems that might suit your son. Well, no superheros that I recall, but plenty of bugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heritagelearningacademy Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Some of my favorite poems as a kid were from Where the Sidewalk Ends. My boys love them too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Veste Academy Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 The Worm by Ralph Bergengren When the earth is turned in spring The worms are fat as anything. And birds come flying all around To eat the worms right off the ground. They like worms as much as I Like bread and milk and apple pie. And once, when I was very young, I put a worm right on my tongue. I didn't like the taste a bit, And so I didn't swallow it. But oh, it makes my Mother squirm Because she thinks I ate that worm! The Puzzled Centipede (anonymous) A centipede was happy quite, Until a frog in fun Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?" This raised her mind to such a pitch, She lay distracted in the ditch Considering how to run. A Bug Sat in a Silver Flower by Karla Kuskin A bug sat in a silver flower Thinking silver thoughts. A bigger bug out for a walk Climbed up that silver flower stalk And snapped the small bug down his jaws Without a pause Without a care For all the bug's small silver thoughts. It isn't right It isn't fair That big bug ate that little bug Because that little bug was there. He also ate his underwear. (This poem is just like my boys, serious and thoughtful, but rofl over poems about eating underwear. :D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyP Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 :DNot a bug or superhero, but my 6yo loves this one: The Worm by Ralph Bergengren When the earth is turned in spring The worms are fat as anything, The birds come flying all around To eat the worms right off the ground. They like worms as much as I Like bread and milk and apple pie. And once, when I was very young, I put a worm right on my tongue. I didn’t like the taste a bit, And so I didn’t swallow it. But oh, it makes my Mother squirm, Because she thinks I ate that worm! ETA: Alte Veste beat me to it. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sew happily ever after Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 I'm standing in the corner By jack prelutsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 The Caterpillar by Christina Rossetti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenniferlee Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 My kids loved the Jabberwocky at that age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Jo Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Ogden Nash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 The Goops. Maybe Now We Are 6 by A. A. Milne? The Purple Cow is short 'n sweet. My 8yo suggests There Once Was a Puffin by Florence Page Jacques. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieE Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Animal Crackers by Christopher Morley? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeghanL Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!-- Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!" By Edward Lear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Super Samson Simpson http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15577 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebereid Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Bee! I'm expecting you be Emily Dickinson I'll try to think of more.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColoNative Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 “If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school. The teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool. A crumb of cake would be a feast And last you seven days at least, A flea would be a frightening beast If you were one inch tall. If you were only one inch tall, you'd walk beneath the door, And it would take about a month to get down to the store. A bit of fluff would be your bed, You'd swing upon a spider's thread, And wear a thimble on your head If you were one inch tall. You'd surf across the kitchen sink upon a stick of gum. You couldn't hug your mama, you'd just have to hug her thumb. You'd run from people's feet in fright, To move a pen would take all night, (This poem took fourteen years to write-- 'Cause I'm just one inch tall).†― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wy_kid_wrangler04 Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 My kids loved the Jabberwocky at that age. For a 6 year old to memorize?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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