THE GARDEN YEAR (Sara Coleridge)

 

January brings the snow,
Makes our feet and fingers glow.

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.

March brings breezes, loud and shrill,
To stir the dancing daffodil.

April brings the primrose sweet,
Scatters daisies at our feet.

May brings flocks of pretty lambs
Skipping by their fleecy dams.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies.

Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots, and gillyflowers.

August brings the sheaves of corn,
Then the harvest home is borne.

Warm September brings the fruit;
Sportsmen then begin to shoot.

Fresh October brings the pheasant;
Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

Dull November brings the blast;
Then the leaves are whirling fast.

Chill December brings the sleet,
Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

VOCABULARY:

Glow. shine-  Thaws: melts - Shrill: estridente (high-pitched)- Stirs- remueve, hace girar - Daffodil: narciso - Primrose: primavera y también una flor llamada "prímula"- Scatters: esparce - Daisies: margaritas - Flocks: rebaños-  Fleecy:lanuda - Dams: madres (only for animals)- Posies: ramitos de flores- Showers: chaparrones- Apricots:albaricoques - Gillyflowers: alhelíes-   Sheaves of corn; gavillas de maíz - Borne: llevada (bear-bore-born(e)- to carry -Pheasant : faisán- Blast: ráfagas de viento -Whirling : rotando- Chill: cold -Sleet: granizo - Blazing : llameante - Treat: premio

 

ACTIVITIES:

1.            Make a list of all the flowers in the poem

2.            Make a list of all the words related to the weather

3       Make a pictogram out of this poem. Click here to see what a pictogram is

Another example of a pictogram

You will get the task on your google classroom in short.