Our Morning Time, 2017-2018

In our home, we do morning time together as a family at breakfast every day of the week.

I start by reading the same poem every day for a week. You can find a list of poetry to read aloud here. I try to mix in folk tales, fairy tales, nature stories, seasonal and holiday books as well as books about science and history. I also use morning time to include our artist studies, composer studies and any preparation for seeing a Shakespeare play.

Here are the resources we used during the 2017-2018 academic year with a second grader, kindergartner, and 3-year-old.

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One Day in the Desert by Jean Craighead George
Robin Hood re-told by Michael Bishop
A Time for Trolls by Asbjornsen and Moe
Exploring the Moon by Gallant and Hess
Perrault's Fairy Tales by Gustave Dore
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail by Thornton W. Burgess

The Twelve Months by Aliki
Find the Constellations by H.A. Rey
The Minpins by Roald Dahl
Battle on the Rosebush by Marian S. Edsall
Lines and Shapes: A First Look at Geometry by Solveig Paulson Russell

One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest by Jean Craighead George
Blaze and Thunderbolt by C.W. Anderson
The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris van Allsburg
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea by Chris Butterworth

Birth of an Island by Millicent E. Selsam
Butterfly Eyes: and Other Secrets of the Meadow by Joyce Sidman
Biography of an Ant by Alice Hopf
Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome
Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex by John R Horner and Don Lessem

When You Were Born in Vietnam by Therese Bartlett
Marianthe's Story Painted Words and Spoken Memories by Aliki
Chinye: A West African Folk Tale by Obi Obyefulu
Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie by Carol Lerner
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner

Cow by Malachy Doyle
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
The Paper Crane by Molly Bang
How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots by Barbara Knutson
Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel

Pizza in Pienza by Susan Fillion
Ghost Wings by Barbara M. Joosse
Minette's Feast by Susnna Reich
Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells by Opal Wheeler
D'aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

The Viking Children's World Atlas by Jcqueline Tivers and Michael Day
The Return of Magic by Wendy Plowman
The Gift of the Tree by Alvin Tresselt
Billy and Blaze by C.W. Anderson
Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Spiders are Spinners by Ellsworth Rosen
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Michelangelo Picture Study
The Treasure of Li-Po by Alice Ritchie
Ludwig van Beethoven by Mike Venezia
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians by Luetta Reimer

Winter Trees by Carole Gerber
Before We Eat: from farm to table by Pat Brisson
An Elm Tree and Three Sisters by Norma Sommerdorf
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
In November by Cynthia Rylant

Maple Tree by Millicent E. Selsam
Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Eating the Plates by Lucille Recht Penner
An Orange for Frankie by Patricia Polacco

The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton
North: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration by Nick Dowson
George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Millions to Measure by David M Schwartz
Eskimo Boy: Life in an Inupiaq Village by Russ Kendall

Hawaiian Myths of Earth, Sea, and Sky by Vivian L. Thompson
A Drop of Water by Walter Wick
Getting Oxygen by Stephen P. Kramer
The Story of Paper by Ying Chang Compestine
Gift from a Sheep: The Story of How Wool is Made by Alberta and Nicole Eiseman
This is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World by Matt Lamnonthe
     
How Kittens Grow by Millicent E. Selsam
A Chick Hatches by Joanna Cole
          
Treasures in the Sea by Robert M. McClung
The Rabbit Problem by Emily Gravett
Teklas's Easter by Lillian Budd
Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature (Spring section) by Nicola Davies
The Tremendous Tree Book by Barbara Brenner
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

     
Man Gave Names to All the Animals by Bob Dylan, Illustrated by Jim Arnosky
Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum
The Story of Your Hand by Dr. Alvin Silverstein and Virginia B. Silverstein
Are you a Bee? By Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries
I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 by Lauren Tarshis
I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, A.D. 79 by Laren Tarshis


A Day in the Woods by Ronald M. Fisher
Song of the Sea Otter by Edith Thacher Hurd
Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends by Opal Wheeler
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Air by Irving and Ruth Adler
I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshis
A Midsummer Night's Dream Graphic Novel by Nel Yomtov (Author),‎ Berenice Muniz (Illustrator)

The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle (Free Google Books illustrated edition)
Among the Night People by Clara Dillingham Pierson (Free Google Books illustrated edition; more free nature lore books here.)
Seals and Walruses by Louis Darling [Part of my $5 book sale haul]
Hurricanes by Dean Galiano
Cactus in the Desert by Phyllis S. Busch
The Goat Lady by Jane Bregoli [Part of my $5 book sale haul]
Crazy Horse's Vision by Joseph Bruchac
Zero is Something by Marnie Luce
All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky
The Aesop for Children illustrated by Milo Winter
Pet Bugs by Sally Kneidel

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