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Poetry Rocks! © Beverley Paine As it's National Poetry Week I thought I'd feature one of my favourite ideas for making poetry fun! The credit for this idea orginally goes to veteran homeschooler Linda Dobson. Gather a few dozen smooth, rounded river stones. Clean them if needed. Paint them dark colours and then with a light felt tip pen or white out pen, write single words on each: he, she, you, river, glistening, fire; you get the gist. Include some full stops, commas, exclamation marks, and question marks. Finish each stone with a coat of clear varnish (lacquer). Put the rocks in a clean cardboard box (recycled milk container work well) that has been suitably decorated. You now have poetry rocks that can be arranged into sentences to make up poetry!. Add more stones to the collection until you have lots of words with which to make sentences or poems. You can also write on the reverse side of the poem, paint the stones different colours to represent verbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns and adverbs. With the children, pick a stone at a time from the container and add it to the poem, either as the next word or leaving a space for another stone to fit into. If you can find or buy pebbles then you can use card, but pebbles/stones make it special and interesting for the children. Another great way to use the word pebbles is to include small objects, like shells or leaves, to represent themselves, within the sentence.
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Facebook page.