Once a month we meet with our Poetry Teatime group at the library. The group can get quite large with kids of all ages. This month we chose a Thanksgiving theme and read poetry related to gratitude and autumn.
Some of our favorite poems this month were:
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- Round by Charles Dickens (included in Poetry Teatime Companion)
- The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (included in Poetry Teatime Companion)
- Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson (included in A Child's Garden of Verses)
Thanksgiving Poetry Teatime Snacks
For our tea choices this month, we used this great seasonal tin of three different flavored teas from The Republic of Tea (my favorite brand). I'm pretty sure the Hot Apple Cider was the favorite followed closely by Pumpkin Spice.
For snacks, we had some Holiday Harvest Hash Chex Mix, Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes, and pumpkin muffins.
Thanksgiving Poetry Teatime Decorations
Decorating for Thanksgiving was pretty easy since we had already decorated our house for fall. We used our fall cornucopia and some pumpkins. We added our pumpkin tea cozy to our favorite Brown Betty.
Thanksgiving Poetry Teatime Activities
Since we have an extensive range of ages in our poetry teatime group, I like to have activities that will work for all ages. Sometimes one activity works and sometimes I plan two different ones. This month we had an activity for the youngers and one for the olders.
Thanksgiving Poetry Activity for Youngers
We started by thinking of all the foods we eat at Thanksgiving. Then we decided which was our favorite. The kids described that food and wrote poems about it using their descriptive words.
If they weren't at the writing stage yet, the moms transcribed the poems for their children.
Thanksgiving Poetry Activity for Olders
The activity for the olders got a little more silly. As we were discussing all of the foods that we have on Thanksgiving, the kids started matching the foods with the personality of their friends and family. They turned these descriptions into fun poems.
You can use the Thanksgiving Food Poem Worksheets below to help your students create their fun food poems. Just subscribe below for the free printable worksheets and start having some poetry fun!
Have you had a Thanksgiving Poetry Teatime? What did you do?
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