Molecules of Eternity: November 2016

11.16.2016

Poetry Class

I'm embarking on a new adventure. I am going to teach poetry at Alyssa's co-op next semester. She is currently doing a fairy tales class. However, the teacher is moving and a spot opened up for a new teacher and new class. I volunteered to do it because, honestly, ever since I heard about this co-op I have bee thinking about how I could contribute. I LOVE IT!

In my read aloud fanaticism I have run across poetry quite a bit as an important thing to include with your children when you homeschool. I listened to a podcast about how people have warm fuzzy feelings about poetry when they think about it from their childhood. But most people kind of hate it when they contemplate their experience with it in high school. I'm just teaching kids, so hopefully we can embrace the warm fuzzies, and hopefully they will love poetry all of their lives.

One thing that has stuck with me as I have been learning about poetry so I can teach poetry, is that poetry has a way of saying things with a punch without unpacking things for pages and pages. You might have enjoyed my couple of little poems from my last two posts, or maybe not, but I do feel like it is a way to say it without using any grammar or in between stuff at all.

I may be practicing a bit more of my own poetry on here and I am psyched to help budding little poets. I hope they can love the poetry we read and even see that it is a beautiful, fun and fulfilling way to express themselves.