Poetry Teatime

I watched the girls on Monday and Tuesday.  When they are here I'm trying to keep a schedule of sorts, since that seems to work well with them.

So first up, schoolwork for Kamryn (and Kyle) then lunch.  After lunch we watch a moving during resting time.  Klaire slept during resting time both days, but as long as she lays down, she doesn't have to sleep.  She does, usually.

I told Kamryn that after resting time, we'd have tea, and she held me to it!

She picked out the tea cups, while I brewed the Chamomile tea. I put out a few cookies for them, and Kamryn put a few clementines on the plate, too.

I like to incorporate some poetry exposure during tea time so I read Robert Louis Stevenson's Autumn Fires to them and we worked on memorizing it.  Klaire just ate cookies, but Kamryn is well on her way to knowing it!

Autumn Fires

In the other gardens

and all up the vale

From the autumn bonfires

See the smoke trail.

Pleasant summer over

And all the summer flowers

The red fire blazes

The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons

Something bright in all

Flowers in the summer

Fires in the fall!

by Robert Louis Stevenson