Poetry Month: On Friday We Get Pizza
It was true 50 years ago; it is true today. Friday is pizza day n the school cafeteria. I clearly remember the anticipation I felt as a student (and as a teacher) on Fridays, because I knew there was pizza in the oven for lunch. With April being Poetry Month, here is a poem from my book There's a Giant in My Classroom (Infinity Press) inspired by a lifetime of eating in school cafeterias. This poem has always proved popular with upper elementary school kids.
On Friday We Get Pizza
It’s Monday in the lunchroom,
And we kids are getting nervous.
We’re wondering what inedible
The cafeteria will serve us.
But we’re ready for most anything:
Rabbit tacos, candied beets-a.
We can get through Monday,
‘Cause on Friday we get pizza.
It’s Tuesday and we’re hungry.
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