Make this cheerful poem part of your fall learning. Download “Come, Little Leaves” by George Cooper to enjoy with your children and explore the signs of seasonal change where you live.

Print off the lovely page to:

• read and/or memorize in your morning time
• do a nature walk and look for elements of the poem around you
• add it to your notebooking
• display on the wall
• look up vocabulary

So many ways to learn with one poem!

“Come, Little Leaves” by George Cooper

“Come, little leaves,” said the wind one day,
“Come o’er the meadows with me and play;
Put on your dresses of red and gold,
For summer is gone and the days grow cold.”

Soon as the leaves heard the wind’s loud call,
Down they came fluttering, one and all;
Over the brown fields they danced and flew,
singing the glad little songs they knew.

“Cricket, goodbye, we’ve been friends so long;
Little brook, sing us your farewell song;
Say you are sorry to see us go;
Ah, you will miss us, right well we know.

“Dear little lambs in your fleecy fold,
Mother will keep you from harm and cold;
fondly we watched you in vale and glade;
Say, will you dream of our loving shade?”

Dancing and whirling, the little leaves went;
Winter had called them, and they were content;
soon, fast asleep in their earthy beds,
The snow laid a coverlid over their heads.

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