Poetry on a Monday

When my boys were younger i  found it easy to keep school interesting.  Just whip out some play dough and off they go!  Or take out the paints and away they paint!  Even old boxes of corn flakes, empty paper rolls, some glue could help a morning pass or help a cranky little one forget he is actually doing "school".  But as they grew older i had to think a bit harder and i confess, sometimes didn't do much to make school fun.  Some days it is just work, work and tick off the boxes!

I have said that we live very remote (not to the people who live here, of course) but very remote to likeminded people - not many of those around - none to be accurate!  We go to our nearest town maybe 2 times a month, where we visit friends and do some shopping and so we have to invent most of our entertainment.  Here is one that is quite new but was a hit from the start!  :)

The curriculum we use is Sonlight and so every year we get new poetry books and i rarely get through them!  Not that i don't like poetry, but somehow it falls off our list of things to do and books to read....and since i come from a guilt culture, i felt very, very guilty about not finishing these wonderful poems.  And so i borrowed a title from a movie and the Dead Poets Society was born!

Monday evenings we all have to dress up some way or the other - a hat, a cloak, a mask - or bring something, like a chocolate.  And then we read poetry!  We prepare some poems and while we have a candle-lit supper we enjoy the richness of poets old and new.  Sometimes the boys are inspired to write their own poems or memorize one and recite it proudly to us!

My biggest worry now is that we could soon run out of poetry books!!  :)  The boys love it and i don't feel guilty anymore!  Viva Poetry!

Bella