This poem is a family favorite.

The children have memorized it around First Grade.

How do you like to go up in a swing,

Up in the air so blue?

Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing

Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,

Till I can see so wide,

Rivers and trees and cattle and all

Over the countryside—

Till I look down on the garden green,

Down on the roof so brown—

Up in the air I go flying again,

Up in the air and down!

by Robert Louis Stevenson

This past Fall we built a new swing set.

This Spring we made some improvements.

Let the swinging begin!