April Poem

This month the girls memorized the poem Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rosetti. This one was short and easy, which was a good choice for winding up our homeschool year.

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March poetry

The girls' poem for the month of March was Trees by Joyce Kilmer. This was a good one for Jane to practice some of her pronunciation, and also seemed to be a more challenging one to learn. They both did great, though, and of course the twins tried to participate, too.

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February Poetry

February's poem for school was called Love Between Brothers and Sisters by Isaac Watts. Timely if you ask me as we spend much of this rainy month cooped up in the house together!

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January Poem

Our poem for the month of January was Little Things by Julia Carney. The twins surprised us by wanting to take a "turn" reciting the poem, and Rosie surprised us even more by knowing some of it!

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December Poetry

Our poem for the month of December was Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost. My Aunt Holly sent us an illustrated book version of this poem and we saved it for December. The girls loved having a book to go along with our poem this month! Thanks, Aunt Holly! This was a fun one, but long, and we did a lot less school this month. Jane had a little trouble with it, but Eleanor loved it. 

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November poem

Happy Thanksgiving! For their November poems, the girls learned Whether the Weather by Anonymous. 

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October Poem

October's poem is Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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We also studied continents, so here is a video of the kids identifying the 7 continents in order from biggest to smallest.

And last on the "school" agenda this month - we recorded one of our science experiments (diet Coke and mentos):

September Poem

We've decided to memorize poetry as part of our homeschool curriculum this year. We are using this as a way to increase fluency, learn intonation, practice early aspects of rhetoric (figures of speech), and public speaking. So here are the girls' recitations of Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson (our poem for September).

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