SING A SONG OF ROSES

 

SING A SONG OF ROSES - A POEM

SING a song of roses, 
The garden's all ablow, 

White ,and cream, and crimson 

Standing in a row.

Sing a song of sunshine, 

Sunshine warm and sweet,

Chasing the little shadows 

On gold and purple feet.

Sing a song of summer, 

And sing it to the tune 

To which the robins warble 

Their lullabies in June.   

                  By HELEN M BURNSIDE 

References:

1. The Primary Plan Book 1912

2. Gardedning Illustated 1893

HEDGE ROSES

 

HEDGE ROSES 

Music by SCHUBERT 

 Arr. by MARY S. CONRADE 

1. On his way a boy espied  
Pret ty blushing  rοses, 

Fresh and bright the hedgerow's pride, 

To admire he turns a side,

And to pluck proposes.

Roses roses rses red,

Pretty blushing roses 

2. Thus he speaks: "I gather thee,

Gayest of the roses!  

Rose says: "Better let me be,

Or you will get stung by me."

hen her spikes discloses.  

Roses roses rses red,

Pretty blushing roses 

3.  Still the rude boy pulls away 

This fair queen of roses;

With a wound he has to pay,

But in vain the rose does pray,

Him in vain opposes.   

Roses roses rses red,

Pretty blushing roses   

References:

1. The Primary Plan Book 1912

   

Little Bird With Eager Wing

 

Little Bird With Eager Wing 

By MARY S CONRADE 

1. Little bird with eager wing, Stopping now and then to sing 
Can you in your  chirping way, Teach me some thing new to day?

The little bird sings in his innocent glee,

That we should be grateful and joyous as he.  

2. Busy bee from flow'r to flow'r, You are flying ev'ry hour,

Can you in your humming way, Teach me some thing new today? 

The bee does not trifle her  moments away,

And we should be active  in work or in play.    

3.Gentle breeze a long the grass, Very softly you do pass;

Can you in your rustling way, Tell us some thing new to day?

Just like the pure breezes that  soothe as they go,

May we e'er be ready to soothe others woe. 

References:

 THE PRIMARY PLAN BOOK BY MARIAN M. GEORGE A FLANAGAN COMPANY CHICAGO 1912 

  

 

Sowing and Reaping

 

Sowing and Reaping 

By JOSEPHINE POLLARD  and S.C. HANSON

1. Out in the high ways wherever we go, 
    Seed we must gather and seed we must sow,

    Even the tiniest seed has a pow'r,

 Be it a thistle, be it a flow'r.

2.Out of each moment some good we obtain,

  Some thing to win now and scatter a gain.

  All that we listen to, all that we read,

All that we think of, is gathering seed.

3.Gatheing seed, we must scatter as well;

  God will watch over the place where it fell.

  Only the gain of the harvest is ours,

  Shall we plant thistles or shall we plant flow'rs?  

    

   

  References:

 THE PRIMARY PLAN BOOK BY MARIAN M. GEORGE A FLANAGAN COMPANY CHICAGO 1912

  

The Postman

 The Postman 

POST OFFICE PROJECT 

By Abbie Farwell Brown  - tune- Folk song

1.Postman! Post man! Why is he late a gain?

Postman! Postman! Where can he be?

Here he comes hurrying, Here he comes scurrying.

Listen! Listen! Yes it is he!   

2.Postman! Postman! Have I a letter, Sir?

Postman! Postman! Hurry and see!

Why are you lingering? What are you fingering?

Yes, Sir! Yes, Sir! That is for he me!     

References:

The Grade Teacher June 1931

 

The Animal Band

 

The Animal Band 

(A Good Song for Circus Time)

By MARION MITCHELL  and CHURCHILL-GRINDELL  

The Animal Band came down the street,

The morning before the show,

It made me laugh to see the Giraffe,

He blew a  big horn, you know.-

The Monkey sat on the  Elephant's back,

And jingled a tambourine,

While made rum ti tum went the big bass drum,

Round the  E1phant's neck twas seen.-

But the Grizz ly Bear in his striped suit,

Was the funniest thing in town,

He nodded, grinned, turned somersaults too,

For he was the circus clown .-

References:

The Grade Teacher June 1931

  

     

 

A SONG OF AMERICA

 

A SONG OF AMERICA 

By A LYNN HAROLD HOUGH  and CARRIE BULLARD 

1. America, my heart's land, 
My singing is for thee;

America, the homeland

Of raptrous liberty; 

America the glad land,

Scattering joy and song; 

America the strong land, 

Fierce battler against wrong! 

2. America, the broad land,

From East to Western sea;

America,  the highland,

Of white peaked mystery;

America, the man's land,

Strong limbed and full of pow'r;  

America, the woman's land,

Fair blooming like a flow'r! 

3.America,  the children's land,

 With mirth and merry plays;

America the old folks land,

With golden sunset days; 

America, my heart's land, 

My singing is for thee;

America, the homeland 

Of raptrous liberty! 

References:

NORMAL and PRIMARY PLANS INSTRUCTOR May 1919

 

    

The Merry Month of May

 The Merry Month of May Song 

Lyric and melody by ADA KYLE LYNCH 
Accompaniment by CLARA GRINDELL

1. Oh I am the merry month of May...

I've just come, 

But I've come to stay,

For thirty one joyous happy days;

I'm the merry merry month of May. 

2. I bring daisy chains and sunshine bright,

 And wild flow'rs gay

For your delight,

With blossoms sweet that scent the air,

And vines for crowns to deck your hair.   

3. I bring laughing streams that run away.

"You can't catch me,"

Their ripples say.

As they hide and dash the rocks vith spray.

Oh tis joy to live in the month of May.      

References:

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS May 1929     

Let's Take the Road and Follow April

 Let's Take the Road and Follow April 

By ANNETTE WYNNE   ALICE HESS BEVERIDGE 

1. Let's take the road and follow April, 

April's heart is wild with glee.

April's lips were made for laughter 

 What tho rain and tears come after

April calls and we are free!

2. Let's take the road and follow April 

Just a merry child is she 

Where she treads green things start growing 

What tho  pril calls- we must be going-

April April calls and we are free!  

Words reprinted by permission from "For Days and Days" by Annette Wynne  1919 by Frederick A Stokes Company  

References:

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS APRIL 1930

Down the Drops Came

 Down the Drops Came 

by CHAS E. BOYD 

Down the drops came, tınkle, tinkle,
With a sudden dash and sprinkle,   

Tho' as blue as perwinkle was the sky.

"Some mysterious hocus-pocus 

Knocked above us and awoke us," 

Cries a little yellow crocus, 

With a sigh.

There's a roaring, there's a clatter 

There's a smoky dash and spatter 

Of the dust, as comes the patter 

Of the drops.

Such a drencher, such a pelter 

Is it; yet, when, helter-skelter 

Everything has found, a shelter, 

Then it stops.   

SONG OF THE SPRING.

SONG OF THE SPRING. 

MY laughter has broke o'er the azure sky, 
And the sombre clouds have arisen to fly;
 My voice through the woods has again been heard, 
And recalled to its haunt the exiled bird.

I ve come to the haunts that I knew of yore-

To the rich man's lawn, to the cottage door; 

But I see the gloom of the storm-cloud cast 

O'er homes lit with love when I saw them last. 

I have made the earth like a fair young bride 

And now farewell, for I may not abide; 

I go to the land that knows not of blight, 

Where cometh no shadow of sorrow or night.  

I shall see no graves of the lovely there,

For Death cannot breathe in celestial air; 

I go where fadeth not blossom or tree: 

Will ye come with me?will ye come with me?

Rerefences:

1. THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER APRIL 13 1889 

SONG FOR ARBOR DAY

 SONG FOR ARBOR DAY  

Tune: Columbia the Gem of the Ocean 

We are clapping our hands, gayly clap-

ping,

 For Arbor Day fair now is here. 
The raindrops have come softly tapping 
   And brought us the violets dear. 
Then sing for the trees bending o'er us,
 And sing for the blossoms so gay. 
We lift all our voices in chorus 
And sing of our glad Arbor Day. 

ARBOR DAY AND EASTER RECITATIONS 

FOR AUDITORIUM OR SPECIAL DAY PROGRAMS 

FOR ALL GRADES 

Themes: Arbor Day, Civic Education, April, Nature Studies, Music, Drama, Literature, Poetry

References:

1. THE GRADE TEACHER APRIL 1931

2.THE SPIRIT OF THE NATION 1918