Entropymama Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 My kids are 5th, 6th, 1st and kindy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 "Five Eyes" by Walter de la Mare. It has a wonderful cadence! We memorized it several years ago and my kids still ask to recite it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 "If" by Rudyard Kipling "The Village Blacksmith" by Longfellow Anything by Edward Lear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Listening in! I was thinking about posting a similar thread. My kids are 5th, 3rd, and K and this year we have memorized so far The Wind by Christina Rosetti and The Road not Taken by Robert Frost, and are currently working on Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momling Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 My kids memorized Maggie, Millie, Molly and May by ee cummings, Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson, the Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, a section of the witches lines in Macbeth, stopping by the woods by Robert Frost, the first few stanzas of the Raven by Poe, and Hamlets soliloquy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAttachedMama Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 I love, love, love the poetry picks in IEWs Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Mother Goose Rhymes are great for the little ones The Arrow and the Song (Longfellow?) Christina Rossetti has some great ones Robert Frost's Good Hours was a favorite of mine as a kid, but he has lots of good ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porridge Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 The Arrow and the Song (Longfellow) Who has seen the Wind (Rosetti) The Wind (A. A. Milne) Daffodils / I wandered lonely as a cloud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAM Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 My kids all memorized The Jabberwocky in 5th/6th and it was their favorite by far. My approach lately has been to have a few poetry books around and let them choose what to memorize, as long as it is challenging enough. They really enjoy doing it that way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplejackmama Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 We have used a poetry book called, The Harp and Laurel Wreath for 8 years. By default these are the poems that have been memorized. Tide rises, tide falls The Song of Mr. Toad The owl and the pussycat Concord Hymn Casey at the bat Dozen or so Robert Louis Stevenson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 For the older ones, my son says The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and my daughter says Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack by Rudyard Kipling. My favorite is The Song of Wandering Aengus by W.B. Yeats. We also really like Goblin Feet by J.R.R. Tolkien. For the little ones, I suggest First Fig and Second Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Afternoon on a Hill (also by Millay), and This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams. I also suggest purchasing the book A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy. It's got lovely poems and simply gorgeous artwork. ETA: Yikes! I mixed up my Millay and my Rossetti! I should be flogged! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Afternoon Upon A Hill, Millay--generally good advice and a lovely poem. Mine also memorized WCW's This is just to say. They found it hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Tara, you and I are poetry twins. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Dd memorized The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere all by herself when she was in 4-5th grades. It's pretty easy, and impressive at parties. ;) :D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I forgot to add that The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service is one of our all-time favorite poems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3andme Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Macavity, the Mystery Cat by T.S. Eliot was one of my sons' favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Many great ones already mentioned, but I didn't see The Bells by Poe (the Raven is a fun one too). My kids have all chosen different Tolkien poems (Fifteen Birds, Bilbo's bath Song, The Man in the Moon, etc). I second If by Kipling, Stopping by Woods by Frost, Jabberwocky by Carroll, and Charge of the Light Brigade by lord Tennyson. My youngers have loved R Stevenson and C Rosetti poems. They also find Hilaire Belloc quite amusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Some things we do to help with poetry memorization (principally for longer poems): 1) We get to know the poet. We read about the poet online or in a short children's biography. 2) We figure out what the poem is about. I clarify words or phrases the children don't understand, and we come up with a short prose summary of the poem. 3) We listen to the poem being read by someone else (our absolute favorite, btw, is Tom Hiddleston [better known as Loki] reading Sonnet 18, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?, on YouTube) to get an idea of pronunciation, cadence, and rhythm. Sometimes we watch a short dramatization (often we can find these on YouTube). 4) We recite together in the beginning. When the kids were young, we would work on two lines a day. Eventually we increased it to four. After 8 years of memorizing poetry, the kids can easily memorize 15-20 lines a day if we spend about 20 minutes working on them. We memorized The Cremation of Sam McGee in a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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