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Posted: June 15 2011 at 1:08pm | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
My dc and I work on memorizing one poem per month during the school year. Over the last three years we've created a nice poetry notebook that we really enjoy.

I have already picked out several for the coming year, but I'm still looking for a couple to add.

So far I have:

A Dragonfly by Eleanor Farjeon
Dust of Snow by Robert Frost   (illustrated by Tasha Tudor )
Hurt No Living Thing by Christina Rossetti
The Wind by RLS
Daddy Fell Into the Pond by Alfred Noyes
Windy NIghts by RLS
A bird came down the walk by Emily Dickinson
Loveliest of Trees by A.E. Houseman
An Old Christmas Greeting (from Favorite Poems Old and New)

Some of these coordinate with our Apologia science studies.
I try to look for poems that are not a million stanzas long, as my dc are still young.

Any to recommend?

Oh- and wanted to add that if anyone is looking for a fun poem about responsibility, try Routine by Arthur Guitarman. My dc love this one

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Some shorter ones that my children really enjoy:

Caterpillar (Rossetti)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats)
Afternoon on a Hill (Millay)
The Tyger and The Lamb (Blake)
The Cow (Stevenson)
April (Teasdale)
February Twilight (Teasdale)
On Easter Day (Thaxter)
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Rossetti)
Trees (Kilmer)
I Never Saw a Moor (Dickinson)

And the very favorite of my 2yo:
B's the Bus (McGinley)

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Posted: June 15 2011 at 4:31pm | IP Logged Quote stacykay
My 6yods just learned There Once Was a Puffin by Florence Page Jacques. He has gone from there into a huge "puffin" trail, reading about puffins, drawing pictures of puffins, mapping where puffins live, etc. He now wants a stuffed puffin.


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Posted: June 15 2011 at 5:23pm | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
Ah- The Lake Isle of Innisfree... I memorized it in fifth grade and still love it.
I might have to include that one

The Puffin is also tempting... very cute and fits in with our bird studies this year.

We did Who Has Seen the Wind and Trees last year The kids loved both.

I am also thinking about The Village Blacksmith, which I know my ds would love, though cutting down the number of verses (there are quite a few.) Or The Bells by Poe... very fun to say aloud.

I love memorizing poetry... it's like having a gift you never lose.

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Posted: June 15 2011 at 5:28pm | IP Logged Quote DominaCaeli
SeaStar wrote:
I love memorizing poetry... it's like having a gift you never lose.


I so agree. My children are still very young so I don't force memorization at all, but of course they pick up the poems on hearing them read so often. It is so fun to see them take such pleasure in reciting poems to themselves as they play or draw. And they take even more pleasure in hearing me recite--very handy when I have cranky children on my hands during a car ride or at the grocery store!

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We love All Things Bright and Beautiful.
http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/a/a177.html
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For some fun poems.. you might look at Shel Silverstein. He does have some longer ones but lots of short ones.. and they're very fun.

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JodieLyn wrote:
For some fun poems.. you might look at Shel Silverstein. He does have some longer ones but lots of short ones.. and they're very fun.


I forgot about him! We have Hug O'War in our poetry notebook, which the kids just love, but I have not revisited his work to look for more in ages.

I think I am going to add "Captain Kidd" by Stephen Vincent Benet to our list for next year. Tasha Tudor's illustration of the poem is perfect, plus my dc are already enthralled with it after hearing me read it twice. It has a very subtle humor, which they think is hilarious.

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Posted: June 15 2011 at 8:33pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
this thread is reminding me of poems I haven't seen since I was tiny.. It was a bigger book.. and had several shorter poems per page.. so sometimes one longer one..

On the page with Who Has Seen The Wind was a poem about "i keep three wishes ready, lest I should chance to meet, any day a fairy coming down the street.."

This book also has B's the Bus. And it had one about dressing up in mom's clothes and high heels.. and about being zoo animals (lions and tigers I think) under the kitchen chairs.

Oh! and Jonathan Bing.. poor old Jonathan Bing..

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