It's Raining Pigs and Noodles

The kids and I reading

"It's Raining Pigs and Noodles"

by Jack Prelutsky

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This book, along with any by Shel Silverstein, is a great

way to get kids interested in poetry. The kids find them quite entertaining.

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I thought this poem appropriate for today, as we wait for our sunshine to come back.

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It's raining pigs and noodles,

it's pouring frogs and hats,

chrysanthemums and poodles,

bananas, brooms, and cats.

Assorted prunes and parrots

are dropping from the sky,

here comes a bunch of carrots,

some hippopotami.

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It's raining pens and pickles,

and eggs and silverware.

A flood of figs and nickels

is falling through the air.

I see a swan, a sweater,

a clock, a model train-

I like this so much better

than when it's raining rain.

-Jack Prelutsky