Poetry Night!

Welcome to our first Syrendell Cafe Poetry Night!

We ate homemade beignets, drank hot chocolate, chai tea, coffee and cucumber water, read our own poems on the microphone, and listened to music. It was a fun way to incorporate poetry writing, speaking and event planning. We are planning on hosting another poetry night and inviting our cousins, aunts and uncles to join us!

Menu

Poems

Joey: "Butterfly" acrostic verse poem

Ricky: "Opposite Sides of the World" diamante poem

Wilson: "Little Bulbs" song to Frere Jacques

Mommy: "Blissful Path" free verse poem (see original poem above)

Daddy: "Monsters Have Mommies, Too" abaab

Lolo and Lola (grandparents): A poem in Tagalog

Jobs

Announcer: Joey

Cook: Ricky

Server: Wilson

Set Decoration and Menu: Joey

Video Clips from Poetry Night

Meal Verse

We prepare and eat at least one lunch that relates to each social studies block (pictures above feature: Jewish charoset from the Diaspora, Medieval peasant/servant meal served in a castle, Moorish feast, Medieval European monk's meal). We love to eat together as a family! During lunch, we start with a meal verse.

Ricky, Joey and Wilson have been entrenched in botany adventures this year, so they made up a poem about a seed becoming a tree, then growing fruit that we will eat. With all of the recent rain, we've been talking a lot about rainbows and colors...also included in the poem!

The poem became a song, and then we added gentle movements to it. At some point, we'll get a video clip of it here on our blog.

Syrendell Meal Verse - From the Earth

From the Earth a seed is born

Sun and rain, in the morn

Grows a tall and happy tree

Lots of shade for you and me

Rainbow-colored sweet fruits grow

Pick them when they're ripe and low

Smell and taste their sugar sweet

Thank you, Earth, for this treat