ALB Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I want to have some printed out ahead of time to work on, because poetry is the kind of thing I tend to forget about as time goes by. Maybe being more prepared will help us next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie4 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 This year my 3rd grader has done The Children's Hour -Longfellow The Flag Goes By -Bennett Pocahontas- Benet I never saw a moor- Dickinson Sonnet 18 -Shakespeare Preamble to the Constitution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissySC Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Poems for subject matter - like nouns, holidays, days of the week, etc. I found a book on Scholastic with these types of poems for a dollar, the Big Book of Classroom Poems. Beyond this, Mother Goose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess4879 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Poems for subject matter - like nouns, holidays, days of the week, etc. I found a book on Scholastic with these types of poems for a dollar, the Big Book of Classroom Poems. Beyond this, Mother Goose. I was avoiding the Dollar Deals this go around because I bought at the last one and needed to resist temptation, but I HAD to check out this book and now I have three items in my cart and I'm still browsing. Oi! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Micah Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Here's a great page of short poems for children. It even has a helpful app for memorizing the poem while improving your typing skills. The site has other pages of good educational and poetry content too like this one on American history and this one for Mother's Day poems (it's coming up you know.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momof3littles Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 DD has memorized a few stanzas of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and recently the first stanza of Wordsworth's Daffodils. Not a poem, but she memorized the FLL list of prepositions in Kindy, with the understanding that you have to really analyze to be sure something is a prep, and the list is merely a tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 I just get a children's poetry book from the library each summer and find 10 poems I like, copy them off and put them in my binder. All my kids in school memorize them. Then, every month during memory/read aloud time we work at it for a few minutes. I haven't been thrilled by this years poems, I don't know what I was thinking. The only one I really thought had good rhythm was The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron. This month's is nice, though. We're doing Silver by Walter de la Mare. A favorite from last year was The Wind and the Moon by George MacDonald. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 This year: Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll Daffodils by Wordsworth The Chickadee by Emerson - we have been on a bird poem kick lately The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe Persevere anonymous The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 We are starting The Children's Hour on Monday. I have two more Longfellow poems picked out, but I don't remember what they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In2why Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I just get a children's poetry book from the library each summer and find 10 poems I like, copy them off and put them in my binder. All my kids in school memorize them. Then, every month during memory/read aloud time we work at it for a few minutes. I haven't been thrilled by this years poems, I don't know what I was thinking. The only one I really thought had good rhythm was The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron. This month's is nice, though. We're doing Silver by Walter de la Mare. A favorite from last year was The Wind and the Moon by George MacDonald. I love this idea!! I keep looking at different books and have quite a few but only want one or two from each source. This is simple and smart! I will make our own poetry book from my sources and the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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