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Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned. As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful. Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content. |
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Using Poetry: Mary had a little lamb. where art thou, Romeo?
© Beverley Paine, 2004
Don't forget to hunt out some poetry and songs that tie in with the books and movies you're reading. Reciting or reading poetry is a much neglected part of everyday life. We begin on the right path when the children are tiny, chanting and singing rhymes at, and with, them, but forget that poetry is an art form that, like paintings, sketches, sculpture and dance, can soothe and refresh the soul, challenge us to think deeply, excite our imaginations and stir the emotions.
We can't avoid poetry, however. How many of us find ourselves repeating rhyming advertising couplets, or singing jingles throughout each day? Point out to your children that these are poetry too, that the world is full of practical and useful poetry as well as artistic poetry.
Songs are simply poetry to music: encourage your children to sing from an early age; not that most need encouragement! I love the Beatles music; it's so easy to sing along to and conjures up great imagery. I love reading aloud Shakespeare as it's tremendously powerful. You don't need to understand the words to feel the emotion embedded in them. There's a poem for every occasion. I know families who read poetry to each other each day and make up outrageous limericks at the breakfast table.
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