Elementary Poetry Volume 1: Textbook and Activity Book - Paperback

by Blanche Fisher Wright (Illustrator), Sonja Glumich (Author)

Splash in the rain, bake a delicious cake, jump over a candlestick with Jack, buy a pig at the market, help Lucy find her locket, try to put Humpty together again, and eat blackbird pie with the King. This volume provides a charming first venture into the world of poetry study. Targeting elementary school-aged children grades kindergarten to second grade, this textbook and activity book offers seventy-two lessons interweaving the poetry of Mother Goose, vocabulary, copywork, recitation, narration, drama, artwork, and review questions.

Author Biography

Sonja Glumich is a scientist, educator, wife, and mother who is inspired by Charlotte Mason's living works approach to homeschooling. She is the founder of Under the Home (underthehome.org), an online homeschool curriculum featuring low-cost courses in art history, poetry, prose, music, history, science, studio art, mathematics, reading, and Shakespeare. Sonja's husband, Chris, homeschools their three school-aged children using the Under the Home curriculum as featured in this book. Sonja graduated magna cum laude with bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, and computer science and later earned a master's degree in information technology. She has also completed education classes and student teaching leading to certification to teach secondary science. Sonja has experience teaching students of all ages, from preschool to graduate school, including as a middle school and high school science public school teacher. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor for Syracuse University and co-created two graduate-level cyber courses. She currently works as a computer scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory. Her current research and education interests are security systems engineering, cyber vulnerability assessments, and everything homeschooling.