I’ve always loved the idea of having poetry parties. I found out about this idea from Teach Beside Me but I know I’ve read about it on other blogs and also an amazing actual book which I got out of a library on homeschooling that I know I took a photo of but cannot find! A poetry party is a tea party where you read and listen poetry while you eat and sip! How cute is that! I have tried it before but I think A was just too little, and far more interested in pouring his drink from the jug into a cup and visa versa than participating in an afternoon tea or listening to poetry. Recently I read this post from Practically Hippie that got me inspired, so on Sunday when we went for a quick shop we picked out something we would like to eat at our morning tea. I picked chocolate cake, A picked chocolate teddy biscuits, and C got some crackers for the cheese we already had. We have a large selection of cheeses at the moment because the mobile cheese shop arrived at the show. I’ll post about the show soon! This time it went smashingly. I read out three poems while we ate, C got to eat cheese, and A felt grown up and special all the while covered in chocolate! It’s a terrible thing to admit as an English teacher, but I’ve never been into poetry. I guess I grew up in a place and era where it wasn’t a focus. I’ve come to appreciate poetry later in life though. I remember reading poetry once in high school from a text book activity in which the teacher must have assumed we knew more then we did because it was a bit of a failure. The other time was when we had to make an anthology of poems based on a topic, and write one ourselves. There was no analysis or any other teaching around the project. I would like A to have a love of the written word, and poetry can be so magical. I don’t need him to know poems off by heart as some homeschoolers do (to each their own) but I would like him to ‘know’ poetry. The collections we used for our tea party where:
A Poem for Every Day of the Year edited by Allie Esiri Where the Sidewalk Ends the poems and drawings of Shel Silverstein A Child’s Garden or Versus by Robert Louis Stevenson
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AuthorHi, I'm Pamela. A nail crazy lady with green hair. I live in outback Queensland with my toddler and my husband. I love books, writing and crafting. For more info about me go to my 'About' page. Archives
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