Ready to Make Friends with Poetry? ⟶
With summer in full swing, where parents (and grandparents) find themselves planning all manner of activities for kids, it’s hard to know how to balance fun and play with a little bit of learning. (Be sure to scroll to the end of this post for a FREE download of these 3 activities!) In this blog post,…
Summer is almost here! With kids nearly out of school (where I live in Seattleland there are two weeks of school left) it’s time to make your Summer Reading List. Then it’s time to find a pocket of time to sit down with a good summer read. Whether you’re a homeschool parent or grandparent, the…
And resources to get you started April is National Poetry Month… and if you are on the fence about adding poetry to your homeschool rhythms I am here as your Poetry Evangelist with Nine Reasons (points? facets? features?) to encourage you to make friends with poetry. It is no secret in my conversations with Home…
Pressed into Joy Golden oil in rounded vessel liquid lightrefracting sun in shimmers. Mirrored shape reflects on glassy surface and I wonder at thedrop, drop, drops of light as theydrip, drip, dripdown. All this tastingjoyfulness becausesomething was crushedand pressed,leaving light. True Wood Pears thunk and plop on barren, yellow grass alone, not-gathered. The tree bore fruit but there…
There’s more than one way to write a poem. Folks often feel intimidated about how to write poetry—I get it; I’ve been there. But Art journaling offers a way to venture into expressing oneself with words and pictures both and thus create a poem, a made thing, (the definition of poem from the Greek word poiema)….
The first poems I ever saved are from Mrs. Appy’s Ninth grade English class in a folder labeled simply ‘Poetry.’ 50 years later I can’t for the life of me locate it but I can see its contents–the ditto ink is faded but still quite legible. There are selections by Richard Brautigan and e.e.cummings, of course,…