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Our homeschool has a poetry tea time and we love it! Sometimes we have tea, sometimes hot chocolate but always we have poetry and fun! We don’t have a time scheduled for poetry tea time because we find time when it is best for our schedules and our moods!

Right now we are using the book “The Llama Who Had No Pajama” by Mary Ann Hoberman and the girls really love it! Sometimes we use our kindles and read poetry on our devices but our favorite way is to hold a book!

I love your blog and your posts and as a newbie in the blogging world. I look to you for a lot of inspiration!

Thank you for being you!

Taj

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“If you are cold,
tea will warm you;
if you are too heated,
it will cool you;
if you are depressed,
it will cheer you;
if you are excited
it will calm you.”

~William Ewart Gladstone

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One of my goals as a mom is to encourage a love of reading in my children. I use our weekly Poetry Tea Time as a perfect way to introduce poetry, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and Aesop fables to my toddler and preschooler. I love how it slows the day down and provides a chance for us to connect with each other.

My children are under 4 years old. Each week, we gather with lots of snack options – it can be leftover Christmas cookies, or doughnuts, or sandwiches, and cheese. I will serve hot chocolate and let them pour in milk and sugar (it’s good hand-eye coordination practice!).

I’ve spent the first few weeks just practicing reading to them while we sat around the table, so our book selection has varied. We’ve read The Jesus StoryBook Bible, Aesop’s Fables, Zoo of Emotions (by Teneisha Jones), Mother Goose, and silly books like Llama Llama Goes To The Beach.

My kids, through bites of cookies and treats, constantly say “Read more!!! Read more!”

~Bethany

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