Wong, Janet. 1994. Good luck gold and other poems. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. ISBN: ISBN: 0-689-50617-1.
Introduction
The child in this poem doesn't get to take lessons like some of her classmates because she is too busy with her chores at home.
Lessons
Melissa has lessons
--judo, ballet--
after school
and Saturdays.
Steven paints
at the art museum.
June is learning
to speak Korean.
I stay home
doing chores
I cook meals
for my brother
and me,
make the beds
with fresh sheets,
do the dishes
from the day
before,
sweep and mop
the hardwood floor.
Still I dream,
when I'm alone,
of lessons
I'll take
when I am grown.
Extension
Ask the children if they are taking lessons to learn anything�piano, ballet, etc. Ask them what they would like to learn to do. Have kids draw pictures of what they want to learn to do. (For example, drawing yourself as a ballerina, etc.)
Five Poems