Topics
Unit One
What a Bird Thought
Unit Two
Daydreams
Unit Three
Be a Good Listener
Unit Four
Strawberries
Grammar
The Twelve Months
Announcements
Listening Skill
Major Dhyan Chand
Reading Skill
Writing Skills
Peer Profile
The Triantiwontigongolope
Three Sacks of Rice
Be a Good Speaker
Count Your Garden
The Adventures of Gulliver
A Lesson for All
Bird Bath
Write Your Own Story
On the Water
Weeds in the Garden
Be a Good Host and Guest
Only One Mother
The Journey to the Great Oz
A Book Review
Write Your Own Poem
Senses Alert
The Man in the Moon
Water in the Well
The Legend of Marathon
All About Money
A Lark
Be a Netizen
Give Your Mind a Workout!
Helen Keller
Rangoli
notes
Count your Garden
Summary
This poem is about how we should see the positives in life and how we shouldn't pay attention to the negatives and they used nice examples to explain how we should that and pay attention to the more important things in life.
Stanza by stanza explanation
Count your garden by the flowers;
Never by the leaves that fall;
In the first stanza, the poet speaks about how we should look at the positives in a very nice way and he gives us the example of how we should count our garden by the number of flowers we have and not the number of dry leaves that fall on the ground.
Count your days by golden hours;
Don’t remember clouds at all.
In the second stanza, the poet tells us about how we can look at the positives in our lives in another way by not counting the clouds but by counting the golden hours of our lives.
Count the nights by stars, not shadows;
Count your life by smiles, not tears;
In the third stanza, the poet gives us a few more examples about how we should look at the positives in life in the night we should count the stars and not our shadow and we should count our life by the number of smiles and good moments and not our tears and sad moments
And with joy on every birthday,
Count your age by friends, not years.
In the fourth stanza, the poet talks about how with every passing year on our birthday we shouldn't count our age we should count how many friends we have.