We love seeing your Poetry Teatime success stories! Today's story comes from a mom who combined poetry with Ancient Greek. Read on for inspiration!
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Brave Writer mom writes...
We enjoyed an Ancient Greece inspired poetry teatime to finish up our history unit. This turned out to be my favorite one yet!
My boys thundered down the stairs squealing excitedly that it was poetry teatime, the grabbed their chosen poetry book, & competed for who would read next!
Poetry Teatime has become our favorite homeschool time!
Here's how their family set up their teatime (see the picture below).
- Food
- Grapes (common in Ancient Greece) along with apples, carrots, and nuts
- You could also offer chips or pita bread and hummus, which are traditional Greek foods
- Decorations
- Painted Greek vase: Nothing says Ancient Greece like an old Greek vase! You can create your own using these instructions from Art Lessons for Kids.
- Minotaur head mask: This fearsome object would definitely add some atmosphere to your teatime! See the mask in the image below, made with colored paper, glue, tape, and black streamers. You can use this template from Mask Spot as a guide.
Books & Resources
Want to enjoy your own Ancient Greek Poetry Teatime? Here are some books and resources for you to use.
- Echo Echo, by Marilyn Singer (reverso poems about Greek myths)
- Learn about Epic Poetry from Poetry Teatime and read epics like...
- The Odyssey and The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles
- The Odyssey and the Iliad, retold by Gillian Cross (prose for kids)
- The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
- Learn All About the Ode from Poetry Teatime
- Check out the Scholastic Lesson on Odes with suggestions for discussing and writing odes for kids
- Read the famous "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
