It’s a Lollity Popity Day!

Hi everyone,

Need some cheering up today? Try this. I wrote it for a book with TIM RASINSKI and GAY FAWCETT, published in 2009 by Scholastic, called PARTNER POEMS FOR BUILDING FLUENCY.

It’s a Lollity Popity Day
2 voices

(1st voice)                                            (2nd voice)					
It’s a lollity popity day                                                       
                                                             It’s a lollity popity
                                                             hide-and-go-seekity day.
It’s a lollity popity
hide-and-go-seektiy
read a good bookity day.
                                                             It’s a lollity popity
                                                             hide-and-go-seekity
                                                             read a good bookity
                                                             roll in the grassity day.
It’s a lollity popity
hide-and-go-seekity
read a good bookity
roll in the grassity
talk with a friendity day.
                                                             It’s a lollity popity
                                                             hide-and-go-seektiy
                                                             read a good bookity
                                                             roll in the grassity
                                                             talk with a friendity
                                                             sit on a lapity day.
It’s a lollity popity
hide-and-go-seekity
read a good bookity
roll in the grassity
talk with a friendity 
sit on a lapity
play with your petity day.
                                                             It’s a lollity popity
                                                             hide-and-go-seektiy
                                                             read a good bookity
                                                             roll in the grassity
                                                             talk with a friendity
                                                             sit on a lapity
                                                             play with your petity
                                                             happy-go-luckity day.

Hooray!					             Hooray!

(c) 2009 David L. Harrison

If you would like to grab a friend and perform this poem, here’s what you’ll need.

It also helps to have two giggly girls.

Time to sell a few books

Hi everyone,

With thanks to the folks at Scholastic, LISA NADEL in particular, I’m posting one of several promotional pieces created to make more teachers and tutors aware of the pair of books that have been published this year. I know you’ve seen the covers already, but I hope you won’t mind the repetition and will consider sharing this post with anyone you know who might be interested in introducing the books where they work. Our dear friend SU HUTCHENS sent a video yesterday of her Colorado students reading some of the partner poems and also called from her classroom to say how much the kids were enjoying the book. You know I loved that!

As I’ve said many times, I am blessed to be working with two outstanding authorities in the field of early literacy. Decorated professors, widely recognized lecturers, authors of numerous articles and books in their fields of specific studies — TIM RASINSKI and MARY JO FRESCH take the poems I wrote for these books and turn them into word ladders and activities that will enhance and stimulate learning in any classroom in America.

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