OCTOBER'S BRIGHT BLUE WEATHER Oh, suns, and skies, and clouds of June, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. When loud the bumblebee makes haste, And goldenrod is dying fast, And lanes with grapes are fragrant; When gentians roll their fringes tight When on the ground red apples lie, And redder still on old stone walls Oh, suns, and skies, and clouds of June, October's bright blue weather. HELEN HUNT JACKSON. From Poems by Helen Hunt Jackson. Copyright, 1873, by Little, Brown & Company a. Study the poem. b. Make the poem with your letters. c. Underline the hard words. d. Copy the poem. e. Draw a picture of one thing of which the poem speaks. The air is cool and the sky is blue. The days are shorter. Frost comes at night. The leaves are falling. Children and squirrels are gathering nuts. The seeds are falling. The insects are hiding. Birds are flying to the southland. Caterpillars and spiders are spinning cocoons. Grasshoppers and ants are gone. b. Ask your teacher to tell you the story, "Psyche and Cupid." c. Ask your teacher to tell you the story, "Ruth and the Gleaners." d. This story is from the Bible. Read it to yourself and then be ready to tell it. "Behold a sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up; "Some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth, and forthwith they sprung up and withered away; "Others fell into good ground and brought forth fruit, some thirty fold, some sixty fold, some a hundred fold." e. Make the following words: rival bright blue bumblebee haste a. Read and tell the following. Tell something else you know about chestnuts. See what I found under a big tree. Do you know what it is? It is brown and good to eat. Yes, it is a chestnut. I have seen the men roasting chestnuts. The shell is not very hard. I can break it and eat the nut. The nut tastes sweet. |