DD loves poetry. Right now we are reading Just so Stories by Rudyard Kipling and the end of each tale has a poem about the tale. I thought I might share with you how we are going to do poetry next year.
First, we’ve selected the same poet rotation as Year 2 from Ambleside Online – Walter de la Mere, Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley, and Christina Rossetti.
I have a few children’s anthologies that my mother-in-law has given me (she is an elementary school teacher), but by far my favorite is Favorite Poems Old and New selected by Helen Ferris. Her indexes are very useful – by first line, by title, by author and she has them grouped by genre (i.e. nature poems, poems about people). I select our poems from here. You can find all of the poets online for free, however. But I do like to have an actual book in my hand if possible.
I will select a poem that I think is suitable for DD and print it out. I’ll post it in our school room and on the refrigerator. And every day we’ll read it.
And that’s that 
