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We memorize a poem every month here at the old homestead during the school year. Over the years our big poetry binder has really filled up, and my dc enjoy revisiting old favorites (such as Arthur Guiterman's "Routine" and
U A Fanthorpe's "Reindeer Report".)
I was having a really hard time feeling inspired to pick out ten more poems for the coming year, but I had a burst of energy this week and got it done.  I mount each poem on card stock and use my stash of scrapbooking paper to make them festive. Our poetry binder is very colorful!
Anyway:
Here is my list for the year:
Aug: "The Creation" by Cecil Frank Alexander
Sept: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats
October: "Escape at Bedtime" by Robert Louis Stevenson
November: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost 
December: "Come Learn of Mary" by Norma Faber
January: "Today Is Very Boring" by Jack Prelutsky
February: "Sea Fever" by John Masefield
March: "I See His Blood Upon The Rose" by Joseph Mary Plunkett
April: "Casual Gold" by Maude E. Uschold
May: "Greedy Dog" by James Hurley
Robert Frost is one of my all time favorites... and, of course, we have to have a RLS in there somewhere. I thought we would not be able to top "Roger the Dog" from last spring, but when I found "The Greedy Dog", I had to add it in; it is hilarious. If you have a naughty dog at your house, this is a must read  .
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "Sea Fever", and "I See His Blood Upon The Rose" are all poems I memorized in the 5th grade- thank you Sister Dominic! She was the only teacher I ever had who made me memorize poetry, and what a gift that was.
What are your poetry picks for the coming year?
I am starting a file of poems for future reference to make this whole process easier next year, so I'd love to see what other people have enjoyed
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Love your picks!
We are doing all Shakespeare this year. Following along in the Ludwig book, How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare. I really didn't see any merit in memorizing poems until last year. So, I thought we would give Shakespeare a try too since I hadn't thought it was important either. I wish we would have started earlier! 
We will be reading poetry weekly from three books I have on hand: Harp & Laurel, Poetry for Young People Lewis Carroll, and Around the Year by Elsa Beskow.
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We are memorizing Shakespeare as well.... I was going to forgo the poems in favor of that, but there was mutiny in the house at the thought of no new poems. (insert pirate icon here ).
Also- I think Shakespeare is going to be a slow ride over several years for us as far as memory work. So we'll see how it goes.
So I have tried to stick with shorter selections for the year... "Paul Revere's Ride " nearly did me in last year . The kids... no problem, but old mom could not get past the first few verses.
ETA: The EB poetry book is one of my very favorites!
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Also- I think Shakespeare is going to be a slow ride over several years for us as far as memory work. So we'll see how it goes. |
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I'm worried about this too, so my plan is subject to change. 
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Well, I am having troubles in planning anything so far this year but I have decided to let each child choose their own poems to memorize.
After reading The Living Page earlier this year, we have all started our own poetry notebook. I put all of our poetry books in the middle of the table and let the kids search for a poem that speaks to them. They then copy out that poem into their notebook. We do this once a week.
I am hoping that they will choose one of their copied poems to memorize.
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Love this thread. I am working on memory work plans right now - will post once I am done. We are going to try group memory work - everyone doing the same poem, unlike what we usually do.
We also have just poetry reading.
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OK - I have my poetry plans. We include poetry in a few different ways in our home:
1. Memorize and recite - 2 or 3 poems a quarter during Morning Time. (see selection below)
2. Review - previous poems -daily during Morning Time.
3. Read a poem during Morning Time - this year we will be reading through 101 Famous Poems, Poetry of the Seasons, and some of the K and 2 poetry recommendations by Memoria Press.
4. Each child has an anthology or poet that they have as part of their independent reading. For my K - it is Mother Goose and A Child's Book of Poems. For my Grade 2 it is AA Milne's The Complete Poems, for my 5th grader it is Robert Frost, Lewis Carroll and WB Yeats.
Our Poems to Memorize are:
Quarter 1
The Gift by Christina Rossetti
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by WB Yeats
My Shadow by RL Stevenson
Quarter 2
Autumn Fires - RL Stevenson
November - Elizabeth Coatsworth
Opportunity - Edward Sill
Quarter 3
The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
Quarter 4
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Invictus - William Ernest Henley
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I'm planning to take our poems to memorize from Living Memory.
My K/1 is doing Garden of verses, When We Were Very Young, and Now We are Six.
My 2/3 is doing Longfellow, Edward Lear, Lewis Carol, and Garden of Verses
My 4/5 is doing William Blake, Emily Dickinson, and William Wordsworth
I think I might use the Ambleside Seasonal 1st grade list for morning time. We've used it on and off over the years and really like the selections.
I make a notebook with a daily checklist for each child anyway, so copying and pasting the poems from Amblesdie's lists onto the back of each sheet is working well. For my non-readers, I have chosen poetry that I can link to for them to listen to independently. Just yesterday and today, I working on this for the first term for my second studying Longfellow. Lit2Go has a rather extensive Longfellow listing (with the text on the page with the recording, which I like!), and instead of just going down the Ambleside list like I did for my oldest and his poetry selection, I was cross referencing and choosing only those I could easily find the recording to go with it. As I had to go through and finish up the term using poems for which there was a recording but were not on the Ambleside list, I realized that there were a great many poems of his that had overtly Catholic tones and symbolism but were omitted from the Ambleside list!
I am not well read in poetry (or really in general), but I can only assume this omission was intentional. It makes me so grateful for Mater Amabilis and other Catholic resources because navigating the subtleties of a *Catholic* education versus an intentionally *non-Catholic* one is so tricky!
And Longfellow wasn't even a Catholic himself!
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Following along with this I'm having a hard time finding poems for my oldest to go along with her World History this year.
She already has Shakespeare on her list but anyone have some favorites from places OTHER THAN US and Britain?
By the way one very cool thing we are doing for my grandmother's birthday is memorizing Zapatitos de Rosa by Jose Marti in Spanish to recite it to her for her special day. I think she is going to be so very happy!
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Just wanted to share that we are incorporating John Ciardi poems in our year... just discovered his delights in You Read to Me and I'll Read to You. He's perfect for beginners who think poetry is boring. Reminds me of Edward Lear a bit...
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Love reading these posts! My kids keep "poetry books" from the first day they homeschool forward. We use those little hardbound composition books. U can decoate the covera w fancy duct tape for a little pizzazz. My kids all have their "own" color so it makes ID easier too:-)
When they were really little, i wd write the verse in highliter and they would trace it. Later, whe they could write, id use a couple of lines a day or short stanza as copy work-which they would work on memorizing. Sometimes i would illustrate (poorly!) a poem and they would color it-or they would decorate the page. Sometimes i even took the easy way out and xeroxed a copy of the poem lol Over the years its been fun to see how the decorations morph from stick figures to elaborate designs, an see the childish scrawl evolve into a steadier hand. These books are so cute, treasures!
In terms of content, i always start them easy on lots of Mother Goose and of course, Robert Lewis Stevenson. Heavy on RLS. We LOVE the poetry-turned-into-songs cd "Days Gone By" and have used pretty much all those poems from "El Dorado" to "Wynken Blynken and Nod" to " Longfellow. Also love Longfellow and James Whitcomb Reilly. As kids get bigger weve gone to longer, more complex poems like "tje Highwayman" (i remember my great aunt reciting that to us when she was in her 80's-so its become stock in trade in our house!) Two years ago we had a Lepanto Club w my kids and their friends that met ever Sunday for the month of October and we read thru the poem, discussed it and spurre each other on to memorize that. At end, they all got a "Battle of Lepanto " mug. It wad fun:-)
I also try to tie poetry selections to history we are studying or travel plans. During our Civil War "immersion" we did a LOT of Civil Ear poetry, incorporate Shakespeare into Classical history (julius caesar, natch), memorized Guiterman's "Daniel Boone" when we visited the Boone home, learned a bunch of Benet's poems for Revolutionary Era, tackled Sandburg's "the Buffalo are Gone" poem when we were out west, took on "Bells of London" when we were in London, yaddah yaddah yaddah yaddah
When im motivated , i TRY to to tie poems to the season we are in, like "when the Frost is on the Punmpkin" by reilly, "Christmas Truce of 1914" at Christmas and so on.
Last but not least, weve been doing something new this year: Poetry on Tuesday. Everyone has to recite a poem of 8 lines at dinner-if tjey accomplished successfully, they r excused from doing dishes. Any poem they like. Its been a good incentive to review old poems and occasionally inspiration to look for new ones (like my son's offering: "Fleas" which went ""Adam had 'em")(Ds did dishes that night rofl)
Our go-to sources for selections have been:
Mother Goose
RLS Childs garden of verses
harp and Laurel
Book of Americans by the benets
The magic Circle by Untermeyer
days Gone By cd
Thx to all here for continued Good Ideas for poetry work. Always a work in progress! Kelly in FL
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Ps sorry 4 all those typos in my post. Submitted quickly by thumb on iphone:-0
Gotta love that "Civil Ear" poetry! lol
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Kelly wrote:
Ps sorry 4 all those typos in my post. Submitted quickly by thumb on iphone:-0
Gotta love that "Civil Ear" poetry! lol
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I am typo queen. Even worse, I frequently get book titles and authors' names mixed up. I never know what I might type up next!
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