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How often do you read the same poem to your children? Once a week? ??
And how often do you share the same poem? Til they are saying it back to you? 🙂
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Shari
I would read different poems each week, but allow for favourites to be repeated, so as to have an appreciation and familiarity for the poet’s style. If I was choosing a poem to be memorized and recited that would be worked on weekly.
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Vanessa
I like to read a poem everyday. For a poet study, we concentrate on one poet per term by focusing on his/her works and biography once a week throughout the 12 week term. The Poetry for Young People series is excellent for these studies.
For poetry that we are memorizing, I make a card for our memory box and we review it the same way we do our scripture memory box.
We simply read a few poems once a week. I pick a few and then my daughter picks one. My goal is to expose her to lots of good poetry and that she would appreciate poetry. We don’t focus on memorizing it.
We are just reading through The Real Mother Goose right now. We read a couple pages once a week. It is also on Librivox, so I have been letting my daughter follow along to it during rest time some days. That way she is hearing the poems more than once.
I recently read somewhere some families read poetry with afternoon tea time (not sure if it was on this forum or somewhere else?). So we’ve begun a new tradition in our home on Wed afternoon “Tea & Poetry.”
We read a few poems while sipping tea and eating a sweetmeat. It slows down the poetry readings. We can discuss the poems and enjoy them rather then rushing through it.Ah! What wonderful memories! We had Teatime Tuesdays when mine were younger. I set the table with candles and we muched on fresh fruit with tea cookies (and we had tea of course). My children picked their favorite book to bring to the table and I read poetry to them. There was a time when my son, who was itty bitty at the time, would bring “The Big Red Barn” by Margaret Wise Brown. He brought the same book for about 4 weeks straight. I took pictures of them one day and I will have those memories forever…sigh
We read a few poems while sipping tea and eating a sweetmeat. It slows down the poetry readings. We can discuss the poems and enjoy them rather then rushing through it.
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