In our Nature Kid Elemental lessons, we will also be learning about the magical aspects of these courses. Each course is not just linked to us through the educational eyes, but through magical as well. I'll walk you through the course and how you can create a personal connection with each of them. In Pagan culture, everything that is magical can correspond to a certain direction, color, and specific attributes. Photo Credit: John Simmons In Paganism we harness all of the energy in everything. Most practitioners will lean closer to nature instead of looking to find the depth of magick in educational areas. Right now we are going to be looking at the educational aspect of Poetry. Think about how we use rhythms and rhythm in every aspect of our lives, from music, to travel, to thoughts, and all forms of communication. Photo Credit: elementalbeings.co.uk Poetry is used differently in all areas of life. It is used to create, inspire, and help to build up communication with all around us. Rhythm is found throughout life. You see it in the rhythm of the movement of the animals, the air, and even in us humans. Rhythm is like cycles, and cycles are all around us in nature. From the seasons to the solar cycle. Photo Credit: Sergio Miguelez As the solar system spins around the Universe it brings with it the cycle of seasons. The moon dictates the rhythm of the oceans. Our emotions are tied to the moon as is a female menstrual cycle. Poetry and communication are represented by two colors both blue and yellow. Yellow corresponds to the color of communication, and the element Air. Blue corresponds to the color of our emotions, and the element Water. Unknown Artist Poetry and religion are a happy blend. Almost every sacred text is made up of different aspects of poetry. From sacred texts to prayers, to mantras, to chants, and to even in spells we see different forms of poetry. Like poetry, not all sacred writings rhyme, but they do tell a story. Usually, they tell a moral, or goal, or are designed to help guide you. That poetry creates new emotion and power in the texts. In spells we use rhyme to help raise the energy before we harness it, also it makes the chant or spell easier to remember. While most would not think stones and minerals represent poetry specifically, they do. Certain stones, in particular, are connected to this skill. Pink opals, amethyst, garnet, agate, and jasper are all excellent stones to help with studying. These stones help to inspire you, so that you can be free of worry and filled with clarity so words can flow. We even see poetry and communication in the tarot. In the tarot, each card and suit has a meaning. There are four suits in the tarot. Like the tarot, every element is representative of a person's personality and actions. The cup suit connects to the water element. The Suit of Cups covers the emotional aspects of life. It represents creativity, relationships, intuition, and the unconscious mind of the querent. Reading can show both the emotional journey and the need to create in the querent. Artist Unknown The deities that are associated with the lesson of poetry vary depending upon which pantheon you follow. We are just going to look at only two pantheons. In the Norse pantheon, you have the God Braghi, who is believed to be the God of poetry, knowledge, and music. Even his name Bragr means “poem.” The Norse would offer a libation to Bragi. The beer would be poured from a Viking drinking horn into a bowl that was placed in the center of the home. Bragi would then appear in the visions and dreams of Norwegian musicians and artists inspiring them. Photo Credit: Charles Meyneir In Greece, you have the Muse Calliope. Zeus visited the Titan Mnemosyne for nine nights in a row, and each night they conceived one of the Muses. Calliope was the last to be conceived, she was born with the ability to inspire. Calliope had the gift of inspiration for artists, poets, dancers, and philosophers. Writers would invoke Calliope at the beginning of a work. The great Virgil even invokes her in the Aeneid. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Novalis
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This week we are starting our first part of our Nature Kids Summer School Lessons for younger kids. This is a 4-week lesson plan that will fill the period between Lithia, June 21 and countdown to Lughnasadh, August 2. This year we will be focusing on how traditional methods of teaching actually impact life. Each lesson plan for the week will have a lesson about a standard subject, with vocabulary words, quiz, experiments, spell work with corresponding Deity work, and guided meditations. Please check back every week to follow along.Teaching kids how to communicate is very important. It teaches them how to communicate their needs and wants properly. There are many different forms of language, poetry is one. Poetry can have a positive impact on the social and emotional learning of children. Poetry helps in language development, creativity, and writing skills. Poetry uses the ability to remember the information by creating a rhythm this is called mnemonic device. Rhythm- a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound Poem- a piece of writing, usually using some kind of rhyme scheme or metrical pattern, that expresses a writer’s feelings External rhyme- is rhyme that occurs in the last words of each line in a poem Internal rhyme- a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. Meter- a literary device that works as a structural element in poetry. Free verse- is an open form of poetry, Like in music, the rhythm of a song is the “beat.” When most people imagine poetry, they likely think of rhymes. Poetry exists in many forms. Some poems rhyme. Others do not. Some poems have a repetitive pattern. Some flow freely. Poems often use imagery to strong emotion in their reader. When you read some poems, the words often have a nice rhythmical quality. The Rhythming of words makes them fun to say and easy to remember. The most important things to consider are the effect you want to have on the reader. Throughout the history of poetic writing, poets have used different types of rhymes to create certain effects. Sometimes the rhythm is a simple one, and sometimes it’s more complex. Free verse is most commonly used in modern and contemporary writing. These poems do not follow a specific rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. The rhythm that is created by the words they are emphasized is called its “meter.” Most words that have more than one syllable, are pronounced more strongly. Words with just a single syllable, while important are not often emphasized. Rhythm and meter are two of the elements that establish the way a poem looks and sounds. The meter is how the words are arranged and measured rhythm in verse. Meter is a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. In certain types of poems, like haikus, the number of syllables matters in each line. A set of two syllables beginning with an unstressed syllable and ending with a stressed is called iamb or iambic; a spondee is two stressed syllables. Anapest is a three-syllable foot consisting of unstressed, unstressed, and stressed syllables. These patterns are placed in sets throughout the poetry and each set is called afoot. In rhythmical poetry, they don’t count the number of syllables in each line; they count the number of “feet.” Metered feet have either two or three syllables. Each foot is made up of one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable. Poems can have any number of feet in their lines. The important thing is to pick a pattern and stick with it. Once you feel the students can define rhythm, meter, and foot. Meter is the basic scheme of stressed and unstressed syllables. A foot is two or more syllables that make up the smallest unit of meter in a poem. Once they understand that part now for the activity part. Now it is time to help your kids write their first poem. It is important to know that imagery, and theme is all needed in the creation of a poem. The first step is to ask your kids what the purpose of their poem is. Now they need to decide if they want their poem to rhythm or be free verse. We then came up with words that rhymed with the noun and action words in his main purpose sentence. HOMEWORK Ask your oldest elder questions about themselves. Then create a poem around that person. Some examples of questions are: What is your name? Can you tell me a funny story about your childhood? What is one thing you wish you knew or did? If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
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As a mom of three boys who go to public school I started to notice that some things were not being taught in detail so I decided to create lessons for them. Many of these lessons cover science, history and of information about Paganism. I share crafts for the all different holidays and cultures as ways that they can learn and have fun at the same time.
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