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I just wanted to share something that works really well in our little homeschool. Every morning, after the 'Read Alouds', the boys copy a poem into their workbooks. They study a chosen poem each week and write it out each day. This simple idea, gleaned from Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling, is fantastic in a number of ways...
Poetry enables the child to become familiar with the rich ebb and flow of language. The repetition of writing means that words are learned in context, rather than by random spelling lists. Poems also 'switch on' a child's imagination, and this can benefit the whole day's work. Poetry is adaptable to all ages, even my four year old wrote the first line of a caterpillar poem today. Finally, poetry is emotive and often brings to the surface thoughts, fears and dreams that would otherwise be buried.
Poetry compilation books are in all libraries, and main bookstores. Go on, dive in! Here is the poem my 10 year old is studying this week:
The Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;. Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches freom his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
(Tennyson)
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