Our days are busy with school, chores and athletics. I'm not too good at forming complete sentences late at night, so posting hasn't been an option. (Some of my shotty attempts at up-dates have happened long past when my brain has long past shut down.)

Somehow I managed to get a few minutes this afternoon to say hi, before dinner and a baseball game to show you something I love doing with the kids and yes, they dig it too.

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Last year we started a poetry program from IEW, called Developing Linguistic Patterns Through Poetry Memorization. Click here to get the low down on it. (You can buy the book & cd's or just the book. I bought them both to help with pronunciation of not-your-everyday-words, and frankly my kids like hearing Andrew Pudewa recite the poems.)

The boys have memorized 12 + poems. Little Miss has about half by memory

Naturally, this led us to discuss different types of poems.

I pulled out the beautiful book, R is for Rhyme  which we use to learn more about the poems and the tools, terms and techniques to create them.

Of course, we then had to try our hand at writing something resembling a poem.  Armed with Evan-Moor's Writing Poetry with Childen , we have attempted to a .... well, write poetry.

If that's what you call it.

We crack ourselves up.

 It's a good time anyways.

 *The above picture of J coloring his poetry page, shows the old cover of Evan-Moors poetry book. The link will take you to the revised book.

*Also, I was asked how much time in my school day this takes. I'd say 5 minutes in the beginning and 15 minutes now that we have 12 poems to recite each morning, which we do during circle time.