I Sat by the Sea: A Poetry Collection for Elementary-Aged Children

The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts Level 3

by Jenny Phillips

I Sat by the Sea: A Poetry Collection for Elementary-Aged Children is an integrated part of the Level 3 Language Arts course and is used in most lessons.

This illustrated compilation of classic children’s poems offers a powerful and fun way to broaden vocabulary, increase reading fluency, and instill beautiful language patterns in children's minds. As the poems highlight the wonders and beauties of nature, family, God, and high-character, children gain much more than just academic benefits--they also have their hearts and characters deepened and expanded.

102 pages
Full color with original illustrations
Hard cover, 8.5″x5.5″
I Sat by the Sea is integrated with the lessons and required to complete the course.

This ebook can be downloaded for free, or a hard copy purchased, at https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/

Genres: Poetry

105 pages, ebook

Published May 1, 2020

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

As a Christian songwriter and music producer, Jenny Phillips has released over 27 albums and has shared her love of music across the world, speaking at over 1,100 events in 23 countries and selling over a million CDs. In order to reduce the stress and time commitments that naturally come with a music label, and so she could focus more on her young family, Jenny left her music label in 2011. She now offers her music for free on www.hislightmusic.com.

When Jenny's children began going to school, she turned toward another one of her passions—education. Jenny began homeschooling in an effort to provide a faith-based, high-academic education focused on building noble character. Not wholly satisfied with any curriculum she could find and deeply concerned about the loss of good literature in our world, she founded The Good and the Beautiful.

Jenny lives in Utah with her husband and five children. In addition to music, motherhood, and good literature, Jenny loves family history, gardening, traveling, and exercising. She is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but she enjoys working with people of many faiths as she shares her multi-denominational curriculum, rejoicing in the common good that all Christians share.

(from https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/about/)

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent collection of poems for all ages to read.

[Misty Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

The main reason I didn't mark this a 5 is simply I don't enjoy reading poetry. Saying that though, this book was well written poetry and enjoyable to read with my kids. They didn't think it was too bad either! We used this as homeschool curriculum to teach them poetry.

[Kaitlin Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Between the sweetness, silliness, and well-roundedness of the poems and the loveliness of the illustrations, this has to be one of my favorite collections of children's poetry. I really enjoyed reading through it this year.

[Helen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 7 year old daughter and I read this to each other. I had such a wonderful time diving into some nature poetry with her.

[Jenna Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

My 8 yo doesn’t like poetry. :/