Summer verses and songs

Summer Verses and Circle


Full  early in the morning

Awakes the summer  sun
The month of June arriving
The cold and night are done 
The cuckoo's a  fine bird
She whistles as she flies
And as she whistles  "cuckoo"
The bluer grow the skies

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Come out, come out this  sunny day
The fields are sweet with new mown hay
The birds  are singing loud and clear
For summer time once more is here
So bring  your rakes and  come and play
And toss and tumble in the hay
The sweet  wild roses softly  blow
All pink and white the roses grow
The nodding daisies  in the grass       
Lift up their heads to hear you pass
Upon this happy,  sunny day
When you  come out to make the hay.


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The summer's warm showers are falling like mist
My face and my hair by their soft touch  are kissed      
The dry thirsty ground becomes fragrant and cool
On every  green leaf lies a small shining pool
Earth blossoms again
I do love the  rain.


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Come bright butterfly, close to me
Your beautiful wings I should like to see
You  fly like a bird,  you sip like a bee
But you're really a flower the wind set  free
 

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 Sunshine Fairies Circle Dance
 

We are  the sunshine fairies
And with our sparks of light
We shimmer and  glimmer in the air

Hugging flowers with colours so bright

(Begin  standing in a circle, children hold out their arms at their sides and turn in  place       
clockwise as fairies. Stop and flick fingers as sparks. Hold out  arms at       
sides, flutter fingers, then turn in place anti clockwise; hug  self and      
  rub hands up and down over folded arms.)

 
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 Butterfly Game
 
Dancing  among the flowers with dainty painted wings
Flits the golden butterfly, joy to  my heart she  brings
Stopping only for a rest to sip the morning dew
Then  flits and  flutters off again
Butterfly, I can't catch you!

(Children  sit in a circle   with hands held up and cupped on top of head acting as flowers.  Butterfly   dances inside the circle, flitting in and out of the space between  seated   
children. Butterfly stops behind one child in circle for a rest,  bends,   
     and sips dew by tickling a flower in the child's palms. Flower  child jumps 
       up and chases butterfly back to his place, then becomes the next       
butterfly. Repeat game with new butterfly.)
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Over in the meadow

Over in the meadow,
In the sand in the sun
Lived an old mother toad
And her little toadie one.
"Hop!" said the mother;
"I hop"said the one,
So they hopped and they hopped
In the sand in the sun

Over in the meadow,
Where the stream runs blue
Lived an old mother fish
And her little fishes two
"Swim!" said the mother;
"We swim!" said the two,
So they swam and they leaped
Where the stream runs blue

Over in the meadow,
By the big oak tree
Lived an old mother bird
And her little birdies three
"Fly" said the mother;
"We fly"said the three
So they flew and they flew
Round the big oak tree
 

Over in the meadow,
In the reeds on the shore
Lived an old mother muskrat
And her little ratties four
"Dive!" said the mother;
"We dive!" said the four
So they dived and they burrowed
In the reeds on the shore

Over in the meadow,
In a snug beehive
Lived a mother honey bee
And her little bees five
"Buzz!" said the mother;
"We buzz!" said the five
So they buzzed and they hummed
In the snug beehive


Busy Bee
I am busy busy, busy, says the bee
I shan't be home for dinner nor for tea
it takes me hours and hours
to visit all the flowers
I am busy busy, busy says the bee


Happy
         Summer!