Need poems with activity...?

One activity children never tire of is acting. Choose several very short poems and have the children act them out in front of the cl. Choose poems with about 3 or 4 characters so that everyone has a chance to act in front of the audience. At first, you should read the poem aloud while the children work out the action, then let them add their own words to the action. It doesn't matter to them that another group has done the same skit; each group will be happy to enact the same story again. Children of this age love repitition. Trust me.