FAVORITE FOOD

"Moo," said Cow,
"this tastes like, WOW!"
"Oink, oink," said Pig,
"this pie I dig."
Tomato said, "Squish."
"Pizza is our favorite dish."

     What is your favorite food?  Can you write a poem about the foods you like to eat today?  This refrain started out as a quatrain, with lines 2 and 4 missing.  but as I worked on the poem, I was having fun, so I switched it to couplets.  I called it a refrain because I'm thinking this poem is going to work its way into a rhyming picture book.  Can you figure out why a cow, a pig, and a tomato are the main characters of this poem?

A children's poem makes you tap your toes and snap your fingers.

Happy Saturday

I'm going to the farmers' market today
I'll buy fresh salad greens if I may.
I'll pick out a tomato or maybe two,
some fresh goat cheese and 

some mushrooms for you.

I'll buy all the fresh fruit
that I wish
and hope someone brings
a nice fat fish.

Then if you come 
with me and Mary
we can all look for
fresh strawberries.


     Is there a farmers' market where you live? What kinds of things are for sale there?  can you write a poem about it?  Have fun writing.