April 27 Word of the Day: Spelling
Teaching again today to young children writing.
How to spell moon.
They choose to write about what they’ve decided
already.
The poem of getting here from there.
One writes the speeds of his scooter in five lines.
Downhill’s best.
There’s the girl who has been to Europe and Rome
and Bali.
How to spell Europe.
Another lists the contents of a magical forest.
The poem of getting there from here.
But they need not go with the set theme of travel.
Dogs are the best, and cats, with names.
One child describes a bird building a nest.
How do you spell twigs.
Another finds dead wood and builds a fire.
Her first bush camp in large lettering.
And the world is quiet and the words come forth.
Steadily towards page two.
Sometimes a dee for a bee and a backwards kay.
Correctly spelling bee’s a beginning.
And who am I to interrupt the HB loops.
The rubbing out and the margin doodles.
A concentrating room of poets.
Words that are all theirs precise and best.
