So what poet are you studying?

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  • January 23, 2012 at 7:38 pm
    simple home
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    We are looking ahead to a new poet, any favorite suggestions?

    So far we have done Stevenson, Frost, and Emily Dickinson in the last few months.

    January 24, 2012 at 3:25 am
    simple home
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    Bumping this post on a new poet,

    Just in case you didn’t know it. 🙂

    January 24, 2012 at 4:20 am
    Wings2fly
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    We are still on A.A. Milne poems. Are your kids too old for those?

    January 24, 2012 at 11:32 am
    simple home
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    I’ve never thought of him before. I don’t think anyone’s too young for those witty poems. 🙂

    I’ll look into those today. Are you using a poem book specifically about him and his poetry?

    January 24, 2012 at 2:48 pm
    swineygirl
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    We read Lewis Carroll poetry last term before we started Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland this term. My kids 4-10 enjoyed it. I think maybe reversing it might make it more meaningful. Read Alice then his poetry.

    January 24, 2012 at 3:59 pm
    sheraz
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    I think that simple home is a fan of The Scarlett Pimpernel???  How about Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein as more modern kid poets?

    I also very much enjoy Edgar A Guest (American) who wrote poems along the same lines as Robert Louis Stevenson.  LOVE his poem called “Myself” and plan to make my children memorize it.  

    January 24, 2012 at 4:43 pm
    Wings2fly
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    When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six are two poetry books by A.A. Milne.  My dc are 5 and 7.5 and they still enjoy them. 

    January 24, 2012 at 8:21 pm
    Kristen
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    My kids learned “Eldorado” by Poe last year and enjoyed it.  We just read a book and several poems about/by Christina Rossetti and they like to draw pictures of one of the poems after I read. 

     

    January 24, 2012 at 9:31 pm
    MelissaB
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    We are currently studying Stevenson, but I think we’re going to wrap it up this week and study A.A. Milne.  My children (even my 14 year old) likes the book I picked up at the library with his poems and since we’re CM newbies and poety novices, I figured it would be great for us.

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