When November arrives, add this lovely poem to your family’s learning time. Download “November” by Alice Carey to enjoy with your children and look for signs of seasonal change where you live.

Print off the lovely page to:

• read and/or memorize in your morning time
• draw or paint a picture from the poem 
• add it to your notebooking
• display on the wall
• look up vocabulary

So many ways to learn with one poem!

“November” by Alice Carey

The leaves are fading and falling;
The winds are rough and wild;
The birds have ceased their calling–
But let me tell you, my child,

Though day by day, as it closes,
Doth darker and colder grow,
The roots of the bright red roses
Will keep alive in the snow.

And when the winter is over,
The boughs will get new leaves,
The quail come back to the clover,
And the swallow back to the eaves.

The robin will wear on his bosom
A vest that is bright and new,
And the loveliest wayside blossom
Will shine with the sun and dew.

The leaves today are whirling;
The brooks are all dry and dumb–
But let me tell you, my darling,
The spring will be sure to come.

There must be rough, cold weather,
And winds and rains so wild;
Not all good things together
Come to us here, my child.

So, when some dear joy loses
Its beauteous summer glow,
Think how the roots of the roses
Are kept alive in the snow.

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