Get ready for fall learning with this lovely poem from my printables shop. Read “September” by Helen Hunt Jackson 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
• add it to your notebooking
• display on the wall
• look up vocabulary
• do a mini plant study

So many ways to learn with one poem!

“September” by Helen Hunt Jackson

The golden-rod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.

The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.

The sedges flaunt their harvest,
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
Make asters in the brook.

From dewy lanes at morning
the grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.

By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather,
And autumn’s best of cheer.

But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air
Is unto me the secret
Which makes September fair.

‘T is a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget.

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