If it weren’t for the schedule of reading a couple of poems to the children at lunch every day and having one of the AO poetry suggestions for Year 1 be A. A. Milne’s The Complete Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh, I would never have personally read this charming, delicious to read aloud book. The children love it and have many favorites which they beg me to read to them over and over. Often with poetry readings, I give them the opportunity to draw something drawn from a poem they have just heard. That combined with nature study inspired Will to go out the other day and draw some of the daffodils in bloom by the south side of the house.

Today the gloomy weather cleared by afternoon. We all went outside under my husband’s direction and worked with rock and mud building the walls of the earth oven. This was really satisfying work. Nearby the daffodils glowed and danced in the sun and wind which reminded us all of Milne’s “Daffodowndilly.”

Daffodowndilly

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,

She wore her greenest gown;

She turned to the south wind

And curtsied up and down.

She turned to the sunlight

And shook her yellow head,

And whispered to her neighbour:

“Winter is dead.” p. 30

From the beautiful mountains of southwest Virginia,

Leslie

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