Opening Verses
   3-5th Grade

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
  --from Lewis Carroll's  The Walrus and the Carpenter

         5th Grade

Look to this day for it is life,
    the very life of life.
 Yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
 But today well lived
   makes every yesterday
  a dream of happiness
And tomorrow
  a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
--from the Hindu

Transition Verses

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand
And the sound of a voice that is still!

--from Break, break, break
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Ending Verses
Now our lesson is completed
The work we have done shall rest
If we have done our best
Wisdom and love and knowledge shall grow
To guide and bless all those we know.

Songs (Rounds)

Let us sing together,
One and all a joyous song.
Let us sing again and again.
One and all a joyous song.


Scotland's burning, Scotland's burning
Look out!  Look out!
Fire, fire.  Fire, fire.
Pour on water.  Pour on water.

I love the flowers
I love the daffodils
I love the mountains
I love the rolling hills.
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The Autumn Season

 Give and take,
Take and give,
Each to the other
As long as we live.

Brave and true, I will be,
Each kind word sets me free,
Each kind deed makes me strong,
I will fight for the right,
I will conquer the wrong.


 For Courage

Forge me with fire,
A sword for my smiting
Fright for my foes and
Flames for my fighting.

Shape me a shield
Forceful and fierce
Stalwart and shapely
To fend against fears.

Strike me a spear
To speed as a shaft
Fearless to fly
As a shot to the start.

Staunch by my front
Against fury assailed
Strong by my soul
Where the feeble have failed.

Choral Speech
We are robbers, bold and burly
Fat and lean and straight and curly
Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!
Fights for us are furious fun
Lions would not make us run!
No, no, no, no
no, no, no, no!

Whether the weather is cold
Or whether the weather is hot.
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather.
Whether we like it or not!