poetry tea time!

We have long woven tea, food, and good reads together, but never in a formal way until I found Brave Writer and learned that Poetry Teatime is a "thing!" Brave Writer is launching a new site, just for Poetry Teatime.

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What does it look like in our home? We are low-keyed and we sometimes read poetry (last week, my son read for the first time and my daughter read poetry she had written!) and sometimes we read other books.

This morning, it looked like this. This morning's read aloud books were:

Enormous Smallness, a Story of E.E. Cummings, by Matthew Burgess

Growing Patterns - Fibonacci Numbers in Nature, by Sarah C. Campbell

Saint Patrick, by Ann Tompert

a chapter from Destinations in Science: Pizzeria (Forms of Matter) - a science book from Addison-Wesley.

We had gluten free Irish soda bread, pears, and jelly beans (because the kids had just finished packing Easter baskets for homeless families, as part of a 4-H project). Our tea choices vary. Little Brown Mouse chose "Vera's Tea" this morning (a personal blend that came from a ranger at a state park near-ish to us) and Lala Bug and I had Tension Tamer from Celestial Seasonings.

And what better to do with tea than write some poetry? The kids were invited to do so by kids in a poetry class through their homeschool charter.