[Tchn4fun]

Does anyone want to share a welcome back/back to school poem with me that is good for 2nd grade? I'm really tired of the two that I alternate each year.

["Toad"ally K]

Summer's over ... it was fun
Now it's time to get things done
Catch the bus and be on time
Standing straight in all those lines

Getting homework every day
Do it quick and then go play
Early nights and days so full
Following those school time rules

Do your best and you will see
Life will go by so quickly
For one day when you are grown
Your lessons written all in stone

You will know that in the end
These the best days you will spend
Sharing knowledge doing well
Your future has a lot to tell.
~Francine Pucillo2004

[mmnj]

I always use this one with the kids' handprints around it...

A Circle of Friends
We've joined together as classmates
as the new year begins...
A year full of learning
while we become friends.
We'll share and be kind
as we work and play.
And our friendship will grow
with each passing day.

[Tchn4fun]

mmnj - thanks! but unfortunately it is! I've used this one every second year for the last 13 years

The other one is good, too. Thanks!

[meeteach3]

Welcome to Mrs. __________ Classroom

Welcome to our classroom,

Come and sit down.

We are all together,

Take a glance around.


Enclosed in our classroom

There's an abundance to do.

I’m ecstatic about being here

And meeting friends like you!

[mmnj]

i figured it might be!

[read2kids]

School’s The Place To Be!
by Valerie Lathrop

(This can be sung to the
tune of Sing a Song of Sixpence.)

Sing a song of gladness:
Another year’s begun!
We’ll be busy learning
‘Til the year is done.

Sing a song of good times,
For all my friends and me!
New discoveries every day.
Yes, school’s the place to be!

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I can't remember all of this one and it is not on the computer but the kids love it and I refer to it later in the year when we talk about verbs. Maybe someone else knows it????

I'm hopping
I'm skipping
I'm doing cartwheels
I'm ___________
I'm ___________
I'm doing a cheer
Because a brand new school year is finally here!

[FitTeach]

After seeing your user name, I thought maybe you could help me find a good picture of a frog leaping. I am making 3 huge 3-D frogs leaping down the hall on the walls on lily pads and I just need a cute one I can blow up. Do you know where I can find one?

[m&mTeach]

Here are a couple . . .

First Day of School
I wonder
if my drawing
will be as good as theirs
I wonder
if they'll like me
or just be full of stares
I wonder
if my teacher
wil look like Mom or Gram
I wonder
if my puppy
will wonder
where I am!

by Aileen Fisher


Welcome
Goodbye vacation!
Hello to school!
Hello new classmates,
Goodbye old pool.
Vacation time's over,
School time is here,
Once more we welcome
Another school year.

[AussieBird]

Fit Teach- here are a few leaping frog pictures that might suit: