“Children were no longer made to learn poetry by heart. And so the deep rhythms of the language, its inner music, was lost to them, because they had never had it embedded in their minds.”~Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith
A project for April, Poetry Month: Make a Memory Poem Book.
Poems for your memory poem book:
All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander.
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
The Children’s Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Animal Crackers by Christopher Morley.
Time for Rabbits by Aileen Fisher.
A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost.
Use any poem with vivid images that are easy for a child to draw and remember.
That’s a thought provoking quote. At least for me, being that I dislike poetry and don’t think I was ever made to learn it. Huh! I’ll have to think on that a bit.