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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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We share poetry titles on our Poetry Teatime Pinterest board. Suggested books often come from the featured teatimes of Brave Writer families. Here are the titles we highlighted during the last year.

Poetry Books Featured in 2015

The Poem That Will Not End: Fun with Poetic Forms and Voices by Joan Bransfield Graham
More Parts by Tedd Arnold
Poetry for Young People by Carl Sandburg
Forest Has a Song by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater
The Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes collected by Elizabeth Hammill
Poetry for Young People by Emily Dickinson, edited by Frances Schoonmaker Bolin
Vile Verses by Roald Dahl
Take Me Out of the Bathtub by Alan Katz
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
American Smooth by Rita Dove
The Kids World Almanac Rhyming Dictionary by Peter Israel and Peg Streep
Fairyland in Art and Poetry by Richard Doyle
If You Were a Chocolate Mustache by J. Patrick Lewis
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child’s Book of Poems edited by Mary Michaels White
Halloween Stories and Poems edited by Caroline Feller Bauer
Tea Party Today: Poems to Sip and Savor by Eileen Spinelli
GUYKU: A Year of Haiku for Boys by Bob Raczka
Noisy Poems for a Busy Day by Robert Heidbreder
Dirt on My Shirt by Jeff Foxworthy
Poems to Perform by Julia Donaldson
Read-Aloud Poems: 50 of the World’s Best-Loved Poems for Parent and Child to Share by Gloria Hale

For more Poetry Teatime titles see our list for 2014.

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Our Poetry Teatime Pinterest board is filled with tips and recipes and inspiration for your next Poetry Tea. Here are some of the most popular repins in 2015. Enjoy!

Visit our NEW Poetry Teatime website!