We started poetry study this week when we received our new Children’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. To be honest at first I wasn’t really looking forward to doing a poetry study with the kids because unfortunately all I remember of the poetry that I was taught in school was that they were of a more modern and esoteric flavor of poems that I really didn’t care very much for at all. But after looking to the Charlotte Mason website for their input on what poets to try, I ran across the book by Robert Louis Stevenson and decided we’d give it a try. Upon receiving it we immediately opened it and started reading from it and the kids and I really enjoy his poems. In fact they liked it so much that I gave them a poem to memorize and to learn to recite and within a couple of days they already have it memorized and enjoy just walking around the house saying it. I picked it because one of our favorite places to visit is the beach during the summer so the poem we decided to learn is called At The Sea-Side.
At The Sea-Side
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.
My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.
Teagan
Arowyn
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