Perhaps this one is everyone's favorite because we make it so sweet-it is our party.
We enjoy the homemade treat we made together and gather around with poems to share, a Shakespeare lesson and recitation of past poems we learned by heart for our hearts.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. -Robert Frost
The Collections of Poems
Poetry for the Well-Educated Heart compiled by Marlene Peterson (free online)
Favorite Poems Old and New selected by Helen Ferris
A Family of Poems My Favorite Poetry for Children selected by Caroline Kennedy
The Homemade Deliciousness
Homemade fresh bread, muffins or cinnamon rolls
Fruit with real whipped cream
Italian sodas, Smoothies, juice
Brownies, cookies, cakes, donuts, pie...
Writing Poetry
I model writing a poem and we write and share and savor. When I hear my children say something poetic, I jot it down and point it out.
Alliteration
Allusion
Amplification
Analogy
Anaphora
Antanagoge
Antimetabole
Antiphrasis
Antithesis
Appositive
Assonance
Consonance
Enumeration
Epanalepsis
Epithet
Epizeuxis
Hyperbole
Litotes
Metanoia
Metaphor
Metonymy
Onomatopeia
Oxymoron
Parallelism
Similie
Personification
Sensory Language
We review free write options and have time for creative writing. For more information on creative writing see the writing post.
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