On "good nights", when I have my act together and I finish the bedtime stories without falling asleep or losing my temper, I like to end the day by standing in the hall between the boys' and girl's rooms while I sing a handful of songs and read poetry. I generally sing the same four or five songs, but I've been rotating the poems to try and give the kids a diverse smattering. I try to get in two poems a night, chosen to coincide with the season or a holiday. I read the same ones four or five times before moving on to the next selection. Some of the poems we have covered this year are...
All by Robert Frost
Mending Wall
Birches
After Apple Picking
The Road Less Traveled
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
From the Random House Book of Poetry for Children
A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
I Heard a Bird Sing by Oliver Herford
From: A Christmas Package by David McCord
Harvest Home by Arthur Guiterman
August by John Updike
The Months by Sara Coleridge
When All the World is Full of Snow by N.M. Bodecker
Our House by Dorothy Brown Thompson
One Day When We Went Walking by Valine Hobbs
