Mrs. Smith's Second Grade

Thomas Merton Academy

Poetry Pages

September, 2000

What is a family?
Who Is a Family?
One and another makes two is a family!
Baby and father and mother: a family!
Parents and sister and brother: a family!

   All kinds of people can make up a family
   All kinds  of mixtures can make up a family

What is a family?
Who is a family?
The children that live in a shoe is a family!
A pair like kanga and roo is a family!
A calf and a cow that go moo is a family!

  All kinds of creatures can make up a family
  All kinds of numbers can make up a family

What is a family?
Who is a family?
Either a lot or a few is a family;
But whether there's ten or there's two in your family,
All of your family plus you is a family!

FAMILY
Our family comes
from many homes.
Our hair is straight,
our hair is brown,
our hair is curled,
our eyes are blue,
Our skins are different
colors, too

We're girls and boys,
we're big and small,
We're young and old,
We're short and tall.
We're everything
That we can be
and still we are
a family.